This essay argues that the significance and nature of ancient epistolary theory have been underestimated and misunderstood due to the nature of the ancient materials, their history of transmission, and the prestige economies of modern (and ancient) academic hierarchies, and it discusses ways in which shifts of interpretive focus can further our understanding of certain aspects of ancient verbal skills training and theory.
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Carol Poster (2008) studied this question.