Tragedy, Authority, and Trickery: The Poetics of Embedded Letters in Josephus

by Ryan S. Olson

To prove his sons' treachery, Herod embellished a letter. To certify his history of Vespasian's Judaean campaign, Josephus marshaled epistolary testimony. To alleviate a domestic problem, the Israelite king David sent a missive with a man it marks for death. Arguing for the importance of the first-century historian Josephus to the study of classical and Hellenistic literature, Tragedy, Authority, and Trickery investigates letters in Josephus's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674053370
• ISBN13: 9780674053373
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 8.9"