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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782443903321

Autore

Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, <121-180.>

Titolo

Marcus Aurelius in love [[electronic resource] /] / Marcus Aurelius & Marcus Cornelius Fronto ; edited, translated, and with an introduction and commentary by Amy Richlin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006

ISBN

1-281-96632-0

9786611966324

0-226-71302-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Classificazione

FH 65652

Altri autori (Persone)

Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome,  <121-180.>

FrontoMarcus Cornelius

RichlinAmy <1951->

Disciplina

188

Soggetti

Love-letters - Rome

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-162) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Letters -- Concordance -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In 1815 a manuscript containing one of the long-lost treasures of antiquity was discovered-the letters of Marcus Cornelius Fronto, reputed to have been one of the greatest Roman orators. But this find disappointed many nineteenth-century readers, who had hoped for the letters to convey all of the political drama of Cicero's. That the collection included passionate love letters between Fronto and the future emperor Marcus Aurelius was politely ignored-or concealed. And for almost two hundred years these letters have lain hidden in plain sight.  Marcus Aurelius in L