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 Love" rescues these
letters from obscurity and returns them to the public eye. The
story of Marcus and Fronto began in 139 CE when Fronto was selected
to instruct Marcus in rhetoric. Marcus was eighteen then and by all
appearances the pupil and teacher fell in love. Spanning the years
in which the relationship flowered and died, these are the only
love letters to survive from antiquity--homoerotic or otherwise.
With a translation that reproduces the effusive, slangy style of
the young prince and the rhetorical flourishes of his master, the
letters between Marcus and Fronto will rightfully be reconsidered
as key documents in the study of the history of sexuality and
classics.
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