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‘I am fine!’ Information about the Sender's Health in the Greek Private Letters of the Roman Period

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Nachtergaele D.

The Journal of Juristic Papyrology

2014

issue 44

155-162

The epistolary practice of giving information about one’s own well-being was common in the Ptolemaic Greek private letters: such a formula appeared in com- bination with the wish for the addressee’s health. In the Roman period, a new health wish arose in the Greek private letters, and the combination of this new formula valetudinis and the information about the sender’s health became rather rare (only about twenty occurrences). Such attestation often appear in letters of a Latin environment, for example letters written in Italy , letters from soldiers, or letters from areas in which the Romans were very active, like Eastern Desert. Given that the practice of giving information about one’s own well-being was common in Latin letters from the Roman period, I argue in this paper that the relative absence of this topos in Greek letters from Roman times is due to Latin influence.

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‘I am fine!’ Information about the Sender's Health in the Greek Private Letters of the Roman Period