Episode LXVI - Fronto

Emperors of Rome

La Trobe University

Roman Emire, Rhiannon Evans, Biography, Emperor, La Trobe University, Roman History, Julius Caesar, Rome, Caesar, Ancient History, History, Caillan Davenport, Roman Emperors

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🗓️ 6 March 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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When Marcus Aurelius was a young man he was important enough to be given the best education sestertius could buy, in the form of a number of prominent tutors. One of those was the respected senator, Marcus Cornelius Fronto, who remained close to Marcus for the rest of his life. His letters to and from the Emperor, as well their relationship, give a rare insight behind the scenes of imperial power.

Guest: Dr Callain Davenport (ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland).

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0:00.0	Ahve, and welcome to Emperor of Rome, a podcast about the rulers of the ancient Roman Empire.
0:12.4	I'm your host Matt Smith and joining me today is
0:15.2	Dr. Colleen Davenport, an ARC Decker Senior Research Fellow at the University of
0:20.8	Queensland. He's the co-author of a book called Fronto,
0:24.4	Selected Letters, published by Blo.
0:27.1	Which brings us to,
0:28.8	This is episode LXVI.
0:32.1	Fronto, Seameless Segway. When Marcus Aurelius was a young man, he was
0:37.2	important enough to be given the best education Cessercy could provide in the form of
0:41.8	a number of prominent tutors.
0:44.0	One of those was the respected senator Marcus Cornelius Fronto, who remained close to Marcus
0:49.0	Aurelius for the rest of his life.
0:51.5	His letters to and from the Emperor as well as their relationship give us a rare insight behind
0:56.5	the scenes of imperial power. He is Colleen Davenport.
1:00.3	Fronto was probably the foremost Latin orator of the Antonine period.
1:05.0	He was from a town called Kirta in North Africa and he was from a well-to-do aristocratic family of the town, but he and his brother were the first
1:15.8	members of the family to enter the senatorial order in Rome. And the way in
1:19.9	which Frunto accomplish this was that he went to Rome as a teenager to study.
1:25.8	He studied with a philosopher and an orator and then he began to make his name as an orator in the
1:32.1	law courts.
1:33.0	So he was essentially a lawyer and that was a way to win friends and clients and then you take on
1:39.1	further cases.
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