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ATTICUS HERODES, TIBERIUS See also:CLAUDIUS (c. A.D. 101-177) , See also:Greek rhetorician, was See also:born at See also:Marathon in See also:Attica. He belonged to a wealthy and distinguished See also:family, and received a careful See also:education under the most distinguished masters of the See also:time, especially in See also:rhetoric and See also:philosophy. His talents gained him the favourable See also:notice of See also:Hadrian, who appointed him See also:praefect of the See also:free towns in. the See also:province of See also:Asia (125). On his return to See also:Athens, he attained See also:great celebrity as an orator and teacher of rhetoric, and was elected to the See also:office of See also:archon. In 140 he was summoned by See also:Antoninus See also:Pius to undertake the education of See also:Marcus Aurelius and See also:Lucius Verus, and received many marks of favour, amongst them the consulship (143). He is principally celebrated, however, for the vast sums he expended on public purposes. He built at Athens a great See also:race-course of Pentelic See also:marble, and a splendid musical See also:theatre, called the See also:Odeum in memory of his wife Regilla, which still exists. At See also:Corinth he built a theatre, at See also:Delphi a See also:stadium, at See also:Thermopylae hot See also:baths, at See also:Canusium in See also:Italy an See also:aqueduct. He even contemplated cutting a See also:canal through the See also:Isthmus of Corinth, but was afraid to carry out his See also:plan because the same thing had been unsuccessfully attempted before by the See also:emperor See also:Nero. Many of the partially ruined cities of See also:Greece were restored by Atticus, and numerous See also:inscriptions testify their gratitude to their benefactor.

His latter years were embittered by family misfortune, and having incurred the enmity of the Athenians, he withdrew from Athens to his See also:

villa near Marathon, where he died. He enjoyed a very high reputation amongst his contemporaries, and wrote numerous See also:works, of which the only one to come down to us is a rhetorical exercise On the Constitution (ed. Hass, 188o), advocating an See also:alliance of the Thebans and Peloponnesians against See also:Archelaus, See also:king of See also:Macedonia. The genuineness of this speech, which is of little merit, has been disputed. See also:Philostratus, Vit. Soph. ii. t ; See also:Fiorillo, Herodis Attici quae supersunt (18oi) ; A See also:Biographical Notice of A.H. (See also:London, 1832), privately printed ; Fuelles, De Herodis Attici Vita (1864) ; Vidal-See also:Lablache, Herode Atticus (1871).

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