Reminiscences of Fronto in Marcus Aurelius' Book of Meditations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10284784 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michiel Van Den Hout (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1950 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 330-335 |
| Publication date | 1950-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mnemosyne (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-7074 • E-ISSN: 1568-525X |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/156852550x00292 |
| OpenAlex | W1969881994 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
REMINISCENCES OF FRONTO IN MARCUS AURELIUS' BOOK OF MEDITATIONS BY MICHIEL VAN DEN HOUT Marcus Aurelius' personality will always captivate mankind; in our times psychology has already started to rewrite his life and modern humanism is inspired by his view of the world. Many writers speak of Marcus' "conversion to philosophy", when, as a young man, he found out that real perfection cannot be found in rhetoric, but only there where the ultimae causae are sought, in philosophy. Yet, when Marcus read Aristo's works, he did not undergo the same change as Saint Augustine when reading Cicero's Hortensius: Aristo made
Art · Art history · Cicero · Humanism · Linguistics · Literature · Perfection · Reading (process · Rhetoric · SAINT · Theology · Augustinian Studies and Theology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Classics · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.02 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1984 - 1984 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |