FRONTO

(Marcus Cornelius Fronto)frŏnˈtō, fl. 2d cent., Roman teacher and rhetorician, b. Numidia, Africa. Antoninus Pius made him consul in 143. A successful teacher and government official, Fronto was an admirer of the early Latin writers and tried unsuccessfully to bring about a renaissance. His extant correspondence (2 vol, 1919–20, Loeb Classical Library) with Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus, Emperor Antoninus Pius, and others, is invaluable for insights into imperial life.

See also E. Champlin, Fronto and Antonine Rome (1980).

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books on: Fronto  - 708 results

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A New History of Classical Rhetoric
Book by George A. Kennedy; Princeton University Press, 1994
Subjects: Oratory, Ancient, Persuasion (Rhetoric), Rhetoric, Ancient, Speeches, Addresses, Etc., Greek--History And Criticism, Speeches, Addresses, Etc., Latin--History And Criticism
...and in his overall view of rhetoric, Fronto is the best Latin counterpart of the Greek...Greek writers of the fourth century. Fronto and several of his contemporaries seem...archaizing. A letter that summarizes Fronto's views was regarded by Haines as the...
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Citizens of Long Ago: Essays on Life and Letters in the Roman Empire
Book by Adeline Belle Hawes; Oxford University Press, 1967
Subjects: Latin Literature--History And Criticism, Rome--Civilization
...until his mother protested. But long before Fronto became his tutor he had learned that philosophy...probable that he never talked much about it to Fronto, for that was the one subject on which Fronto could neither sympathize with him, nor understand...
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Septimius Severus: The African Emperor
Book by Anthony R. Birley; Routledge, 1999
Subjects: Emperors--Rome--Biography, Rome--History--Lucius Septimius Severus, 193-211, Severus, Lucius Septimius--Emperor Of Rome--146-211
...from all over the Mediterranean. Africans like Fronto may have made sure that their Latin was perfect, even if Fronto, in jest, liked to call himself a Libyan of the Libyan nomads. But Fronto was the leading Latin literary man at Rome. Many...
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Apuleius and Drama: The Ass on Stage
Book by Regine May; Oxford University Press, 2006
Subjects: Apuleius--Knowledge--Latin Drama (Comedy), Apuleius--Metamorphoses, Latin Drama (Comedy)--History And Criticism
...may have known from their studies or from watching it. Fronto Fronto is the influential forerunner of the archaizing movement...modern Asianists of the preceding century,.82 `While Fronto did not create this antiquarian movement, it was he...
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Roman Eloquence: Rhetoric in Society and Literature
Book by William J. Dominik; Routledge, 1997
Subjects: Latin Literature--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, Literature And Society--Rome, Rome--Social Life And Customs
...Antoninum De Eloquentia 1). Furthermore, Fronto saw Latin give way to Greek in his century...38 Like Cicero and the elder Cato, Fronto was determined to encourage the pursuit...government. The correspondence shows us that Fronto continually reminded Marcus Aurelius and...
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The Life of Martha of Bethany by Pseudo-Marcilia
Journal article by Diane E. Peters; Theological Studies, Vol. 58, 1997
Subjects: Bible. N.T. (Sacred text)--Personalities, Christian biography--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Martha (Biblical figure)--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Women in the Bible--Biography
...funeral was conducted by Christ and Bishop Fronto of Perigueux who was miraculously transported...of Milan officiating rather than St. Fronto.(24) After Marthas burial, numerous...persecution, two other bishops, St. Fronto of Perigueux and St. Georgius of Velay...
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Visual Attention as a Multilevel Selection Process
Journal article by Sabine Kastner, Mark A. Pinsk; Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, Vol. 4, 2004
...appear to be controlled by a higher order fronto-parietal network of brain areas that...feedback control of higher order areas of a fronto-parietal attention network that mediate...1994). A functional role for the fronto-parietal attention network in attentional...
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At Your Own Peril: an ERP Study of Voluntary Task Set Selection Processes in the Medial Frontal Cortex
Journal article by Birte U. Forstmann, K. Richard Ridderinkhof, Jochen Kaiser, Christoph Bledowski; Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, Vol. 7, 2007
...electrophysiological literature for a fronto-parietal network to be involved in the...centro-parietal sites and a positivity at fronto-lateral sites, starting about 1,500...to the P3 complex. Note that the more fronto-central part of this ERP component appeared...
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Urethral Masturbation and Sexual Disinhibition in Dementia: a Case Report
Journal article by Michael Rosenthal, Pinhas Berkman, Adi Shapira, Israel Gil, Jancu Abramovitz; The Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences, Vol. 40, 2003
Subjects: Antipsychotic Agents, Haloperidol
...raised a differential diagnosis between DAT and fronto-temporal dementia. Patients with fronto-temporal type dementia (including Picks Disease...with sexual disinhibited behavior (22). The fronto-temporal type dementia is characterized by...
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Electrophysiological Evidence for the "missing Link" in Crossmodal Attention
Journal article by John J. McDonald, Wolfgang A. Teder-Salejarvi, Daniel Heraldez, Steven A. Hillyard; Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, Vol. 55, 2001
Subjects: Attention, Ears & hearing, Experiments, Light, Research, Sensory perception, Sound, Space perception, Visual perception
...negativity in the 60-200 ms range over the fronto-central scalp than sounds that appear...comparison, the Nd2 was largest over the fronto-central scalp, and was significantly...the Nd2 was largest over the midline fronto-central scalp and was slightly larger...
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Cindy Sherman's Gravity: A Critical Fable
Magazine article by Rosalind E. Krauss; Artforum International, Vol. 32, September 1993
Subjects: Sherman, Cindy--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...would explain, in an alignment that is "fronto-parallel" to the perceiver. This orientation...despite the images coherence in its formal fronto-parallel splendor (reinforced on the...the operations of the veil if not its fronto-parallel orientation to the upright...
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Africans in Britain 2000 Years Ago
Magazine article by Marika Sherwood; New African, October 2010
Subjects: Africans--International aspects, Africans--Social aspects, Roman Empire, 30 BC-476 AD--Analysis, Slavery--History
...from 238 till 244. There were 38 Africa-born officers and definitely two generals leading the Roman legions in Britannia: Fronto Aemilianus Calpurnius Rufilianus, from Tunisia, commanded Legio II from 161 to 169. Q. Aurelius Polus Terentianus commanded...
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The Farce of the Death Penalty
Magazine article by Peter Linebaugh; The Nation, Vol. 261, August 14, 1995
Subjects: Capital punishment--Social aspects, Execution (Punishment)--History, Executioners--History, Executions and executioners--History
...of time thats not so long. Bread and circuses, said Juvenal, were enough to settle the class war in Rome; it was left to Fronto, the tutor of Marcus Aurelius, to explain how. As a palliative, the shows were superior to the bread, he said, since the...
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Unraveling the Mystery
Magazine article by Patrick Perry; The Saturday Evening Post, Vol. 280, September 2008
Subjects: Aging, Alzheimers disease, Blood & organ donations, Studies
...genetic tests, PET and MRI scans-are either to search for another cause of dementia such as a stroke, brain tumor, or fronto-temporal dementia, or are research tools. Q: How can people locate specialized centers? The National Institute on Aging...
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My Amygdala, My Self: Intrigued (and Alarmed) by the New Science of "Neuromarketing," Our Correspondent Peers into His Own Brain Via an MRI Machine and Learns What He Really Thinks about Jimmy Carter, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Bruce Springsteen, and Edie Falco
Magazine article by Jeffrey Goldberg; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 302, July 2008
Subjects: MRI equipment--Personal narratives, Magnetic resonance imaging--Personal narratives, Neuroimaging--Personal narratives
...play like him." ILLUSTRATION OMITTED And my reaction to David Bradley, the man who signs my paychecks? "You activated a fronto-parietal network in the right cerebral hemisphere that has been implicated in self-recognition in many experiments," Iacoboni...
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All Done in Name of Love; Thousands Look after Loved Ones Who Suffer from Some Form of Dementia. Ahead of Carers Week RUTH LAWSON Talks to a Woman Who Cares for Her Husband Full Time
Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), June 11, 2010
Subjects: Caregivers
...all in a days work for the dedicated wife who has been caring full-time for the 74-year-old since he was diagnosed with fronto-temporal dementia three years ago. The 66-year-old said: "It can be tough because sometimes you think its not going...
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The Doctor; Doctor Gareth Smith Is Here to Answer All Your Health Queries. Write to Him at Dr Gareth, Sunday Mail, One Central Quay, Glasgow G3 8DA. Email G.Smith@sundaymail.Co.UK
Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), April 17, 2011
Subjects: Electronic mail systems, Email, Health
...centre in the country offers this treatment. My brother has frontal temporal dementia. Is this the same as Alzheimers? No. Fronto-temporal dementia affects the part of the brain that deals with judgment, inhibitions and holds the personality. A sufferers...
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No One Should Be Left to Just Fade Away. as New Figures Reveal That Dementia Kills One in Six People, We Investigate How the Heartbreaking Disease Devastates Families across the Country and Look at Why, with an Ageing Population, the Problem Is Only Going to Get Worse
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), November 25, 2010
...Alzheimers is the most common form accounting for almost two-thirds of cases. The other main varieties are vascular dementia, fronto-temporal dementia and dementia with Lewys bodies. And while its more likely to hit people over the age of 65, younger people...
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Literary Fiction
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 15, 2011
...supposedly high-minded love between Ancient Greek men and boys -- like that of the young Marcus Aurelius for his teacher Fronto -- is compared to the more anxious attitudes of today. Thomas Marius and Josiahs relationship is one in which sex is studiously...
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Teach Yourself WILLPOWER; Can't Commit to the Gym? Struggle to Stay on a Diet? the Solution Could Be Simpler Than You Think
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 17, 2011
...which are affected by low blood sugar. According to the book, using the part of our brain that determines self-control, the fronto-median cortex, uses up more of our bodys glucose supplies than normal. This causes us to crave sweet things to replenish...
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encyclopedia articles on: Fronto  - 3 results

 
 
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Fronto
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FRONTO (Marcus Cornelius Fronto)fron to, fl. 2d cent., Roman teacher and rhetorician, b...him consul in 143. A successful teacher and government official, Fronto was an admirer of the early Latin writers and tried unsuccessfully...
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Marcus Aurelius
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...humanity a philosophy with a Stoic basis. The virtuous character of Marcus Aurelius is revealed in his letters to his tutor Fronto . See biography by A. R. Birley (1966); study by J. H. Oliver (1970). ____________________ Copyright...
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Latin Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Principate, while Quintilian brought classical literary criticism to its greatest development. In the 2d cent. Marcus Fronto distinguished himself as an orator; his pupil Marcus Aurelius gained fame both as a ruler and as one of the masters of the...


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