Cicero's closest friend and primary correspondent — the Letters to Atticus are the most important source for Cicero's inner life — who managed to maintain friendships with all sides of the civil wars through studied neutrality and who was the leading publisher of ancient Rome.
Represents the pragmatic Epicurean retreat from political engagement — Atticus's neutrality in the civil wars allowed him to survive while Cicero died — and the Letters to Atticus are the fullest record of an ancient intellectual's daily life and political anxieties.
Discussing
Ask anything about Titus Pomponius Atticus — their ideas, influences, contradictions, legacy.
Sign in to start a conversation.