{"product_id":"9780674991255-correspondence-l113-v-2","title":"Correspondence, Volume II","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eFronto\u003c\/b\u003e (c. 100–176 CE), a much admired orator and rhetorician, was befriended by the emperor Antoninus Pius and teacher of his adopted sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. His correspondence offers an invaluable picture of aristocratic life and literary culture in the 2nd century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLetters of an imperial tutor.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe  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 practices  to excess the cultivation of trendy mannerisms, but sees clearly enough  the sterility of a slavish imitation of classical models.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Loeb Classical Library edition of Fronto is in two volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30386207096929,"sku":"9780674991255","price":24.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_41160100_7bf7a5d2-40a3-45c2-b676-733314dd1dc9.jpg?v=1778128173","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780674991255-correspondence-l113-v-2","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}