Fronto: Selected Letters
M. Cornelius Fronto was a Roman senator from North Africa, and the foremost Latin orator and legal advocate of the mid-second century A.D. Fronto's talent and fame led to his appointment as tutor to Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, the adoptive sons of the emperor Antoninus Pius, in the late 130s A.D. Fronto's extant correspondence, discovered in the early nineteenth century, consists of around two hundred letters extending over a period of more than twenty-five years, from the late 130s to the mid-160s A.D. In this period, Fronto educated Marcus and Verus in the art of Latin rhetoric, and watched with pride as his illustrious pupils matured…
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Weitere Autoren: Manley, Jennifer
- ISBN: 978-1-4725-0405-0
- EAN: 9781472504050
- Produktnummer: 17036010
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 436 KB
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Caillan Davenport is a Senior Lecturer in Roman History at Macquarie University, Australia. He is co-author of Fronto: Selected Letters (Bloomsbury, 2013) and sole author of A History of the Roman Equestrian Order (2018).
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