Liminal women in fronto'S letters

• Yasuko Taoka ^[1]
  1. [1] Southern Illinois University Carbondale
• Localización: Classical journal, ISSN 0009-8353, Vol. 108, Nº 4, 2013, págs. 419-445
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper seeks to contribute to the study of epistolography as well as to discussions of women in antiquity by examining the use of references to women in the correspondence of Fronto and Marcus Aurelius as epistolographic borders. The depictions of Domitia Lucilla (Marcus Aurelius' mother) and Cratia (Fronto's wife) construct an inner, homoeroticized space for Fronto and Marcus demarcated from the domestic sphere populated by the women. The letters, as a site of rhetorical presentation and interpersonal negotiation, provide Fronto and Marcus with the means to define their relationship.