Attalus (Stoic)

Attalus (/ˈætələs/; Greek: Ἄτταλος) was a Stoic philosopher in the reign of Tiberius around 25 AD, who was defrauded of his property by Sejanus, and reduced to cultivating the ground.[1] He taught the philosopher Seneca,[2] who frequently quotes him, and speaks of him in the highest terms.[3] The elder Seneca describes him[1] as a man of great eloquence, and by far the acutest philosopher of his age. We have mention of a work of his on lightning;[4] and it is supposed that he may be the author of the Proverbs referred to by Hesychius[5] as written by one Attalus.

Notes

  1. 1 2 Seneca, Suasoriae, 2.
  2. ↑ Seneca, Epistles. 108.
  3. ↑ Compare Naturales Quaestiones, ii. 50, Epistles, 9, 63, 67, 72. 81, 109.
  4. ↑ Seneca, Naturales Quaestiones, ii. 48.
  5. ↑ Hesychius, Korinnousi.
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "ATTALUS, literary". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. p. 412.
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