personal secretary. In addition to the Ciceronian correspondence, a key source for the life of Atticus is a biography written by the Roman historian Cornelius Nepos.

A philhellene, Atticus spent much of his adult life in Greece. Although personally connected to many of the major players in the civil wars that marked the end of the Roman Republic, Atticus always maintained his neutrality, a stance in keeping with his Epicurean philosophical