Marcus Cornelius FrontoRoman orator
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association with Marcus Aurelius
( in Marcus Aurelius: Youth and apprenticeship )
The long years of Marcus’ apprenticeship under Antoninus are illuminated by the correspondence between him and his teacher Fronto. Though the main society literary figure of the age, Fronto was a dreary pedant whose blood ran rhetoric, but he must have been less lifeless than he now appears, for there is genuine feeling and real communication in the letters between him and both of the young...
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