Sara Fascione, Dialogical Cultures Junior Fellow

Dr. Sara Fascione (University of Naples) stayed as a Fellow at the KU CAS Dialogical Cultures from May to July 2021. She is a post-doctoral researcher for Latin literature at the University of Naples with a focus on the analyis of late antique epistolary collections. In her current project, Dr. Fascione investigates the reception of Fronto in letters by Symmachus.

Ideology of power and reception of Fronto in Symmachus’ Letters

The project offers the first comprehensive study on the relationship between Fronto’s and Symmachus’ letter collection. By analysing textual allusions and thematic similarities, the research aims at examining how the reception of Fronto influences Symmachus’ representation of the imperial power. The project outcomes will shed further light on the strategies of self-representation and the dialogical approach to the past in late antique aristocratic culture; furthermore, the investigation on the circulation of Fronto’s work in late will improve our philological understanding of his text.