THE CORRESPONDENCE OF MARCUS CORNELIUS FRONTO WITH MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONIUS, LUCIUS VERUS, ANTONINUS PIUS, AND VARIOUS FRIENDS. VOLUME I. (1)

by Haines, C.R., ed. Marcus Cornelius Fronto

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Book description: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1982, revised.. lvi, 309 pp, 16mo (6 5/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Bilingual text (Latin/English) on facing pages. ISBN 0434991120 "The literary remains of the rhetorician Marcus Cornelius Fronto (c. A.D. 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 pupil, Marcus Aurelius, his. c hief correspondent. Apart from small-talk (but even the trivialities of the great are replete with interest) the principal subject is Latin prose style. Fronto practises to excess the cultivation of trendy mannerisms, but sees clearly enough th. e s terility of a slavish imitation of classical models." Very minor edge wear. Dust jacket has light edge wear. Near Fine/Very Good.

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