Herodes Atticus
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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.In their orbit 6
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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. 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.
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