FrontonianiRoman scholastic group
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following of Fronto Fronto, Marcus Cornelius
In addition to his orations, Fronto’s grammatical and rhetorical studies won him a number of followers, called the Frontoniani. Modern evaluations of Fronto’s mastery of language are based on the information contained in the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius, a member of Fronto’s circle; on a collection of Fronto’s letters (principally to Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus); and on...
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contribution to annalist literature annalist
Aulus Gellius, writing in the 2nd century ad, preserved in his Noctes Atticae (“Attic Nights”) a further ancient distinction, which had arisen in the late 2nd century bc: Sempronius Asellio, influenced by the contemporary Greek historian Polybius, distinguished between annals, which recount the past in a...
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Figulus Figulus, Publius Nigidius
Roman savant and writer, next to Marcus Terentius Varro the most learned Roman of his age, according to the Latin writer Aulus Gellius (2nd century ad).
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Fronto Fronto, Marcus Cornelius
...rhetorical studies won him a number of followers, called the Frontoniani. Modern evaluations of Fronto’s mastery of language are based on the information contained in the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius, a member of Fronto’s circle; on a collection of Fronto’s letters (principally to Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus); and on miscellaneous pieces discovered with the letters in 1815 in...
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discussed in biography Gellius, Aulus
Latin author remembered for his miscellany Noctes Atticae (“Attic Nights”), in which many fragments of lost works are preserved. Written in Athens to beguile the winter evenings, the work is an interesting source on the state of knowledge and scholarship of his time. Both in Rome, where he studied literature and rhetoric, and in Athens, where he studied philosophy, Gellius’...
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evaluations of Fronto Fronto, Marcus Cornelius
...Fronto’s grammatical and rhetorical studies won him a number of followers, called the Frontoniani. Modern evaluations of Fronto’s mastery of language are based on the information contained in the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius, a member of Fronto’s circle; on a collection of Fronto’s letters (principally to Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus); and on miscellaneous pieces discovered with...
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importance in annalist historiography annalist
Aulus Gellius, writing in the 2nd century ad, preserved in his Noctes Atticae (“Attic Nights”) a further ancient distinction, which had arisen in the late 2nd century bc: Sempronius Asellio, influenced by the contemporary Greek historian Polybius, distinguished between annals, which recount the past in a straightforward narrative, and histories, which tell...
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