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Correspondence with Fronto
Epistulae M. Cornelii Frontonis et M. Aurelii
Letters, many of them fragmentary, exchanged between Marcus and his teacher of Latin rhetoric, Marcus Cornelius Fronto, from the late 130s to the mid-160s. Arranged in books by addressee (Ad M. Caesarem, Ad Antoninum imperatorem, De feriis Alsiensibus, De eloquentia…), they show the heir's rhetorical training, his declared affection for his teacher, the domestic life of the imperial family, everyone's illnesses and Marcus' gradual move away from rhetoric to philosophy, which he confesses around 146 after reading the Stoic Aristo. They were thought lost until Angelo Mai found them in a palimpsest (Ambrosiana, 1815; Vatican, 1819). The standard critical edition is Michel van den Hout's (Teubner, 1988).
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Authorship note
Authentic letters, preserved within Fronto's correspondence. They include letters by Marcus (as Caesar and as emperor) and his teacher's replies, plus some in Greek. They survive in a single mutilated palimpsest, so many are incomplete and their order and dates are debated.
Editions and translations
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English
Marcus Aurelius in Love
University of Chicago Press, 2006
Translation: Amy Richlin
ISBN 9780226713007
Selección de las cartas de juventud con comentario; reedición en rústica de 2008 con ISBN 9780226713021.
Marcus Cornelius Fronto: Correspondence, II (Loeb Classical Library 113)
Harvard University Press / Heinemann, 1920
Translation: C. R. Haines
ISBN 9780674991255
Bilingüe latín-inglés.
Marcus Cornelius Fronto: Correspondence, I (Loeb Classical Library 112)
Harvard University Press / Heinemann, 1919
Translation: C. R. Haines
ISBN 9780674991248
Bilingüe latín-inglés.
Marcus Aurelius
The Correspondence of Marcus Cornelius Fronto, vol. I (Internet Archive)
The Conscious LibraryThe Correspondence of Marcus Cornelius Fronto, vol. I (Internet Archive)
Heinemann / Putnam, 1919
Translation: C. R. Haines
Dominio público (Haines murió en 1935).
Italiano
Marcus Aurelius
Opere di Marco Cornelio Frontone
The Conscious LibraryOpere di Marco Cornelio Frontone
UTET (Classici latini), 1974
Translation: Felicita Portalupi
ISBN 9788802050386
Latín
M. Cornelii Frontonis Epistulae
B. G. Teubner (Bibliotheca Teubneriana), 1988
ISBN 9783322004482
Ed. crítica de Michel P. J. van den Hout.
Español
Marcus Aurelius
Epistolario
The Conscious LibraryEpistolario
Gredos (Biblioteca Clásica Gredos, 161), 1992
Translation: Ángela Palacios Martín
ISBN 9788424914769
Introducción, traducción y notas. Agotada según la librería Marcial Pons.
Other works by Marcus Aurelius
Sources
- Frontón, Marco Cornelio. The Correspondence of Marcus Cornelius Fronto with Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Lucius Verus, Antoninus Pius, and Various Friends. Ed. y trad. de C. R. Haines. 2 vols., Loeb Classical Library 112–113. Londres: Heinemann, 1919–1920.
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