Herodes Atticus
Greek sophist and Roman senator (101-177) · Politicians · Died at 76
Herodes Atticus 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.
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Portrait of Herodes Atticus. Marble Roman artwork, ca. 161 AD. Found in Probalinthos, Attica, Greece. - Louvre, France.![Bust of Polydeukes, favourite of Herodes Atticus[17] - Altes Museum, Berlin](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Altes_Museum_-_B%C3%BCste_des_Polydeukion.jpg/1280px-Altes_Museum_-_B%C3%BCste_des_Polydeukion.jpg)
Bust of Polydeukes, favourite of Herodes Atticus[17] - Altes Museum, Berlin
Memnon the Ethiopian, foster child and student of Herodes Atticus; marble bust, c. 170 AD, from the villa of Herodes Atticus in the Peloponnese. The bust of the youth is housed in - Altes Museum, Berlin.About this person
He was one of the best-known figures of the Antonine Period, and taught rhetoric to the Roman emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, and was advanced to the consulship in 143. His full name as a Roman citizen was Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes.
