Correspondence, Volume I by Fronto, Charles Reginald Haines - 9780674991248

Harvard University Press

Correspondence, Volume IAuthor(s): Fronto, Charles Reginald Haines\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Harvard University Press, United States\nImprint: LOEB\nISBN-13: 9780674991248, 978-0674991248\nSynopsis\nLetters of an imperial tutor.\n\nThe literary remains of the rhetorician Marcus Cornelius Fronto (ca. AD [tel] 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 practices.