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    • Herodes Atticus (Ancient Greek: Ἡρώδης; AD 101–177) was an Athenian rhetorician, as well as a Roman senator. A great philanthropic magnate, he and his wife Appia Annia Regilla, for whose murder he was potentially responsible, commissioned many Athenian public works, several of which stand to the present day. He was one of the best-known figures of th… See more

    Ancestry and family

    Herodes Atticus was a Greek of Athenian descent. His ancestry could be traced to the Athenian noblewoman
    Herodes' … See more

    Life

    Herodes Atticus was born in Marathon, Greece, and spent his childhood years between Greece and Italy. According to Juvenal he received an education in rhetoric and philosophy from many of the best teachers fr… See more

    BornLucius Vibullius Hipparchus Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes · 101 · Marathon, Greece
    Died177 (aged 75–76) · Marathon, Greece
    Occupation(s)Imperial magistrate, engineering and architectural consultant
    Employer(s)Senate and people of Rome
    Children

    Regilla bore Herodes Atticus six children, of whom three survived to adulthood. They were:
    • Son, Claudius – born and died in 141
    • Daughter, Elpinice – born as Appia Annia Claudia Atil… See more

    Legacy

    Herodes Atticus and his wife Regilla, from the 2nd century until the present, have been considered great benefactors in Greece, in particular in Athens. The couple are commemorated in Herodou Attikou Street and … See more

    Sources

    Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights
    Philostratus, Leben der Sophisten. Greek and German by Kai Brodersen. Wiesbaden: Marix 2014, ISBN 978-3-86539-368-5
    Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists, 2.1 (paragraphs 545–566)… See more

     
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