Attalus (Stoic)

Attalus (Greek: Ἄτταλος) was a Stoic philosopher in the reign of Tiberius (c. 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 2 Seneca, Suasoriae, 2.
↑ Seneca, Epistles. 108.
↑ Compare Naturales Quaestiones, ii. 50, Epistles, 9, 63, 67, 72. 81, 109.
↑ Seneca, Naturales Quaestiones, ii. 48.
↑ Hesychius, Korinnousi.

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