93,820 profiles ranked live

Amafinius

✓ Source-basedstable

1st-century Roman epicurian

AcademicsDied 100 BC
Compare
Fame41.4
Momentum3.8
Languages10
In century#2,746

Gaius Amafinius was one of the earliest Roman writers in favour of the Epicurean philosophy. He probably lived in the late 2nd and early 1st century BC. He wrote several works, which are censured by Cicero as deficient in arrangement and style. He is mentioned by no other ancient writer but Cicero.

Also inDeutsch

About this person

Gaius Amafinius was one of the earliest Roman writers in favour of the Epicurean philosophy. He probably lived in the late 2nd and early 1st century BC. He wrote several works, which are censured by Cicero as deficient in arrangement and style. He is mentioned by no other ancient writer but Cicero. In the Academica, Cicero reveals that Amafinius translated the Greek concept of atoms as corpusculi in Latin.

Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Died 100 BC
Written about in
10 languages

Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.