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Opere
Frontone (100 – 170 d.C.) fu il più famoso oratore del suo tempo, e principale esponente dell'arcaismo. A lui Antonino Pio affidò l'educazione dei futuri imperatori Marco Aurelio e Lucio Vero. Della sua opera ci restano lettere, scritti storici ed esercitazioni retoriche, espressione di un'attività molto varia e di un'ampia influenza. Si tratta di alcune fra le più espressive testimonianze dell'epoca degli Antonini, e quando il suo epistolario fu rinvenuto da Angelo Mai, nel 1815, suscitò il vivo entusiasmo degli ambienti intellettuali, e anche di un giovane Leopardi. Le Opere di Frontone sono raccolte da Utet in questo ebook con adeguato compendio esegetico e testo latino fruibili in forma ipertestuale.
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First published May 15, 2013
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Marcus Cornelius Fronto
79 books4 followersFronto was born a Roman citizen in about AD 100 in the Numidian capital Cirta. Educated at Rome,he soon gained such renown as an advocate and orator as to be reckoned inferior only to Cicero. He amassed a large fortune, erected magnificent buildings and purchased the famous gardens of Maecenas. Antoninus Pius, hearing of his fame, appointed him tutor to his adopted sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
In 142 he was consul for two months (August and September), but declined the proconsulship of Asia on the grounds of ill-health.
His latter years were embittered by the loss of all his children except one daughter.
His talents as an orator and rhetorician were greatly admired by his contemporaries, a number of whom were later regarded as forming a school called after him Frontoniani; his object in his teaching was to inculcate the exact use of the Latin language in place of the artificialities of such 1st-century authors as Seneca the Younger, and encourage the use of "unlooked-for and unexpected words", to be found by diligent reading of pre-Ciceronian authors.
He found fault with Cicero for inattention to that refinement, though admiring his letters without reserve.
He may well have died in the late 160s, as a result of the Antonine Plague that followed the Parthian War, though conclusive proof is lacking.
In 142 he was consul for two months (August and September), but declined the proconsulship of Asia on the grounds of ill-health.
His latter years were embittered by the loss of all his children except one daughter.
His talents as an orator and rhetorician were greatly admired by his contemporaries, a number of whom were later regarded as forming a school called after him Frontoniani; his object in his teaching was to inculcate the exact use of the Latin language in place of the artificialities of such 1st-century authors as Seneca the Younger, and encourage the use of "unlooked-for and unexpected words", to be found by diligent reading of pre-Ciceronian authors.
He found fault with Cicero for inattention to that refinement, though admiring his letters without reserve.
He may well have died in the late 160s, as a result of the Antonine Plague that followed the Parthian War, though conclusive proof is lacking.
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