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Correspondence / edited and for the first time translated into English by C.R. Haines.
Van Pelt Library PA6389.F7 A4 1928 v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fronto, Marcus Cornelius.
- Series:
- Loeb classical library ; no. 112-113.
- The Loeb classical library ; no. 112-113
- Standardized Title:
- Epistulae. English, Latin & Greek
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Fronto, Marcus Cornelius. Correspondence.
- Fronto, Marcus Cornelius.
- Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, 121-180--Correspondence.
- Marcus Aurelius.
- Verus, Lucius Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, 130-169--Correspondence.
- Verus, Lucius Aurelius.
- Antoninus Pius, Emperor of Rome, 86-161--Correspondence.
- Antoninus Pius.
- Antoninus Pius, Emperor of Rome, 86-161.
- Verus, Lucius Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, 130-169.
- Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, 121-180.
- Emperors--Rome--Correspondence.
- Emperors.
- Authors, Latin--Correspondence.
- Authors, Latin.
- Orators--Rome--Correspondence.
- Orators.
- Genre:
- Correspondence.
- Personal correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes ; 17 cm.
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1928-1929.
- Language Note:
- Some letters in Latin, some in Greek, each with English translation.
- Summary:
- The literary remains of the rhetorician Marcus Cornelius Fronto (ca. AD 100-176) first came to light in 1815, when Cardinal Mai, then prefect of the Ambrosian Library in Milan, discovered that beneath an account of the Acts of the first Council of Chalcedon in 451 had originally been written a copy of the correspondence between Fronto and members of the imperial family, including no less than three who were to wear the purple. The letters possess an extraordinary fascination as giving an authentic record of the relationship between the foremost teacher of his time and his illustrious student Marcus Aurelius, his chief correspondent. Apart from small-talk (but even that is replete with interest) the principal subject is Latin prose style. Fronto practises to excess the cultivation of trendy mannerisms, but sees clearly enough the sterility of a slavish imitation of classical models.
- The Loeb Classical Library edition of Fronto is in two volumes.
- Notes:
- First ed. published: 1920.
- Includes bibliography.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0674991249
- 9780674991248
- 0674991257
- 9780674991255
- OCLC:
- 426586421
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