Scriptae imagines: Fronto's correspondence as dialogue and portrayal

Scriptae 想象：弗朗托的信件作为对话和写照

• 批准号: 387056572
• 负责人: Privatdozent Dr. Wytse Hette Keulen
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Seminar für Klassische Philologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/387056572?language=en
• 关键词: Scriptae; imagines; Fronto; correspondence; dialogue

Marcus Cornelius Fronto (c. 100 to 170 A.D.) remains until today one of the most neglected Roman authors of the Imperial period. Fronto was tutor to the future Emperor Marcus Aurelius and the most renowned Roman orator of his era. His surviving correspondence consists of a body of more than two hundred letters to and from the Emperor Antoninus Pius and his two designated successors, Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. Frontos correspondence contains unique and first-hand evidence for the way Roman Emperors worked and what it meant to educate a prince. However, a detailed literary, stylistic and philological investigation of Frontos letters is still a desideratum.With this project I aim to present a new perspective on Frontos correspondence as a form of epistolary literature. In my analysis of the letters, I will focus on two different aspects related to epistolarity. First, I will read the letters as a form of dialogue and second, as a form of literary portrayal. The difference between these two aspects of epistolarity lies in the respective communicative situation. On the level of dialogicity, the communicating partners are the internal "I" and the internal "you" (i.e. the correspondents, sharing expressions of friendship, anecdotes etc. with each other), whereas on the level of epistolary portrayal, the communication takes place between the "I" (the writer of a particular letter) and an external "you", the reading audience of the published letters. Focusing on the letters as a form of dialogue, the study will elucidate the correspondence as a learned and witty conversation between a warm-hearted aristocrat and an accessible princeps / Emperor, who structure their exclusive friendship by means of the epistolary medium. Investigating their epistolary dialogue as a negotiation and redistribution of power and authority, I will analyse the rich language of the letters as a means to (re-)structure and (re-)shape the relation between the two correspondents. It will be an important contribution to the question, as to how Latin epistolary discourse participates in re-shaping and re-inventing the role of the aristocrat in relation to the ruler.Focusing on the letters as a form of portrayal, the study will demonstrate in detail how Fronto connects his self-image as the best teacher of Emperors, the best Roman orator of all times, and the leading authority on Latin, with a compelling assertion of his central position within an elite community. I will explore the ideal image of elite life, language and behaviour drawn in the letters as paradigmatic for the Roman intellectual elite of this age. The study will place Frontos epistolary portrayals of intellectuals and Emperors in the context of contemporary mechanisms of (self)-representation, comparing them with a broad spectrum of media, both literary and non-literary (e.g. portraits, statues).

Marcus Cornelius Fronto（c.公元100年至170年）直到今天仍然是帝国时期最被忽视的罗马作家之一。弗朗托是未来皇帝马可·奥勒留的导师，也是他那个时代最著名的罗马演说家。他幸存下来的信件包括200多封与皇帝安东尼·庇护和他的两个指定继承人马库斯·奥勒留和卢修斯·维鲁斯的信件。弗隆托斯的书信包含了独特的第一手证据，证明了罗马皇帝的工作方式，以及教育王子意味着什么。然而，一个详细的文学，文体和语言学的调查弗朗托斯信件仍然是一个desideratum。与这个项目，我的目标是提出一个新的视角弗朗托斯通信作为一种书信文学。在我对这些信件的分析中，我将集中在与书信相关的两个不同方面。首先，我会把这些信件当作对话的一种形式来读，其次，把它们当作文学作品的一种形式来读。书信体的这两个方面的区别在于各自的交际情境。在对话性层面上，沟通的对象是内部的“我”和内部的“你”（即通信者，彼此分享友谊、轶事等），而在书信体描写层面上，沟通发生在“我”（特定书信的作者）和外部的“你”（已发表书信的阅读读者）之间。书信是一种对话形式，通过书信这种媒介，作者将把书信阐释为一个热心的贵族和一个平易近人的君主之间的一次博学而诙谐的对话，他们通过书信这种媒介构建了自己独特的友谊。调查他们的书信对话作为一个谈判和权力和权威的重新分配，我将分析丰富的语言的信件作为一种手段（重新）结构和（重新）塑造两个通信员之间的关系。这将是一个重要的贡献的问题，如拉丁书信话语如何参与重塑和重塑贵族的角色，与统治者的关系。集中在信件作为一种形式的写照，研究将详细展示如何弗朗托连接他的自我形象作为最好的老师的皇帝，最好的罗马演说家的所有时间，和领先的权威，在拉丁语，他在精英群体中的核心地位得到了有力的证明。我将探索信件中描绘的精英生活、语言和行为的理想形象，作为这个时代罗马知识精英的典范。 这项研究将把知识分子和皇帝的书信体描绘在当代（自我）代表机制的背景下，将它们与广泛的媒体进行比较，包括文学和非文学（例如肖像，雕像）。