Atticus
Titus Pomponius Atticus (109 - 32 av. J. - C.) was a historian and “bookseller” (editor) Latin.
It was a Romain very rich and cultivated, born from equestrian family. He published works of his friends (among whom Cicéron) and is the oldest “bookseller” which one knows the name in Rome. Its life is known by a biography which Cornélius Népos devotes to him.
Atticus wrote a chronology of the Roman history ( Chronica or Liber year ), among other works, especially historical, but none of them was preserved. One finds in the correspondence of Cicéron of many letters which are addressed to him, but any him.
It was called “Atticus” because of his love for the culture of Athens, where he had lived of 88 with 65 av. J. - C..
Biography
Witness, as of his youth, from the civil wars of Marius and Sylla, it moved away from Rome in order to not take any share with the public disorders, and went to fix himself at Athens, where it was delivered entire to the study.
He managed to so purely speak Greek whom he deserved the nickname of Atticus . He returned to Rome only when the calm one was restored there. There always refused public employment and constantly remained dependant with the most eminent men, though they were divided between them, such as Sylla and Cinna, Pompée and César, Marc Antoine and Cicéron, Brutus and Octave.
It had as a son-in-law Agrippa, and gave his sister to Quintus Tullius Cicero, brother of Cicéron. He enjoyed a great fortune and a great credit, and he in the USA only to make repair the injustices and to help the victims of the civil wars.
He let himself die of hunger to withdraw itself from the pains of an acute disease.
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