Curtius Atticus

Curtius Atticus was a wealthy eques of ancient Rome who was one of the few companions whom the Roman emperor Tiberius took with him when he retired from Rome to Capreae in 26 CE. ^[1]

We know relatively little of him except that, six years later, in 32 CE, Atticus fell a victim to the machinations of Sejanus, obsessed with controlling those who had access to Tiberius, said to be operating under the "advisement" of Julius Marinus. ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

He was supposed by German classical scholar Justus Hermann Lipsius to be the same as the Atticus to whom two of Ovid's Epistulae ex Ponto are addressed. ^[6]

References

1. Houston, George W. (1985). "Tiberius on Capri". Greece & Rome. 32 (2). Cambridge University Press: 186. JSTOR   642441 . Retrieved 2024-12-26.
2. Tacitus, Annals 4.58, 6.10.
3. Syme, Ronald (1989). The Augustan Aristocracy. Clarendon Press. p. 362. ISBN   9780198147312 . Retrieved 2024-12-26.
4. Levick, Barbara (2003). Tiberius the Politician. Taylor & Francis. p. 136. ISBN   9781134603794 . Retrieved 2024-12-26.
5. McHugh, John S. (2020). Sejanus: Regent of Rome. Pen & Sword Books. Retrieved 2024-12-26.
6. Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto 2.4, 7

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Smith, William (1870). "Atticus, Curtius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Vol. 1. p. 413.