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Paul’s letter to the Philippians offers treasures to the reader—and historical and theological puzzles as well. Paul A. Holloway treats the letter as a literary unity and a letter of consolation, according to Greek and Roman understandings of that genre, written probably in Rome and thus the latest of Paul’s letters to come down to us. Adapting the methodology of what he calls a new history of...

remedies.5 In Tusc. 3.34.81, Cicero mentions handbook treatments of death, poverty, exile, life without honors, the destruction of one’s country, slavery, illness, and blindness. Dio Chrysostom offers a similar list in Or. 16.3. This range of subject matter is reflected in the surviving corpus of consolatory writings.6 Second, whereas modern practice tends to equate consolation with sympathy, ancient consolers generally distinguished between these two concepts. They often began their letters or speeches
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