Alciphron, Aelian, and Philostratus Picture storybooks Designed for flexibility

Designed for flexibility

anxieties and obsessions onto colour for thousands of years

This spellbinding volume is the perfect introduction to the subject

Yet weathered words are but a part of OFT

Alciphron, Aelian, and Philostratus Picture storybooks Designed for flexibilityThe Letters of Alciphron (second century CE) constitute one of the most attractive products of the Second Sophistic. They are fictitious compositions based on an astonishingly wide variety of circumstances, though the theme of erotic love is constantly sounded. The imagination shown by the author and his convincing realism win him a place of distinction in the early development of romantic prose. The letters, which are highly literary, owing much to