Fronto: Selected Letters

by Caillan Davenport, Jennifer Manley, M. Cornelius Fronto

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780934424
• ISBN13: 9781780934426
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"