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ROMAN PELOPONNESE I
name and offices are completed by the new editors as follows:
[Τι. Κ]λαύδιον "Αττ[ικό]ν Ήρώδη[ν] Ι [Ίπ]πάρχο[υ] Μαραθώ[νιον υπατον] Ι
[κυι]νδεκέμ[β]ηρα ίερέ[α τών Σεβαστώ]ν εν Άθή[ναις] Ι [Ήρώδου πατέρα, ή πόλις ή τών
Ηλείων].
Athenian
consul, quindecemvir
Remarks: For the person, the first Athenian who reached the senatorial order and the
consulship see PIR 2 C 801; Graindor, Atticus, 19 ff.; M. Woloch, Roman citizenship
and the Athenian elite A.D. 96-161. Two prosopographical catalogues (Amsterdam
1973) 163-167, no. 30; Halfmann, Senatoren, 120-123, no. 27; J. Oliver, EOS II, 584-
585 and 601; FOS, 84 (in the comments on no. 84); Settipani, 469-470; W. Eck, Der
neue Pauly3, 13 [II 10]; A.R. Birley, "Hadrian and Greek senators", ZPE 116, 1997,
209-245. Atticus was allowed under Nerva to resume the wealth and status of his
father Hipparchus, who was condemned for tyranny and exiled under Domitian, and
received the ornamenta praetoria and became twice consul under Trajan. He made
his enormous wealth probably from money-lending, investments in land and
commerce.
In Olympia he appears in the inscriptions of the nymphaeum built by his son. His
office [κυι]νδεκέμ[β]ηρα in [2] is probably the Greek transcription of quindecemvir
(cf. Mason, 14 f., 116 f). In the same inscription he is also refered to as ίερέ[α τών
Σεβαστώ]ν εν "Αθή[ναις]; the fragment ΙνΟ492 [—]ν εν "Αθή[—] was considered
as a part of this inscription by Bol and Schumacher (contribution in Bol, Herodes-
Atticus-Nymphäum) since Atticus is attested merely as ιερεύς only in Athens. In
other documents Atticus is attested as άρχιερεύς τών Σεβαστών; for different uses
of αρχιερεύς and ιερεύς see P. Graindor, Athènes sous Auguste, Recueil de travaux
publiés par la Faculté des lettres de l'Université Egyptienne I (Le Caire 1927) 151
ff.; J.H. Oliver, The Athenian expounders of the sacred and ancestral law (Baltimore
1950) 95 f.; A.J.S. Spawforth, "The early reception of the imperial cult in Athens:
Problems and ambiguities", in: M.C. Hoff-S.T. Rotroff (eds), The Romanization of
Athens (Oxford 1997) 183-201.
Apart from Eleia, Claudius Atticus is attested also in inscriptions of other
Peloponnesian regions. The family had close ties with Sparta, see A.J.S. Spawforth,
"Sparta and the family of Herodes Atticus: a reconsideration of the evidence",
ABS A 75, 1980, 203-217. Atticus is attested in several Spartan documents, see LAC
270. His attestation as κ(άσεν) indicates that he had acquired Spartan citizenship (cf.
Spawforth, op. cit., 209; Ameling, Herodes Atticus, II, 65 no. 33 app. crit.); he
appears in a catalogue of gerontes of Trajanic age, where an Hierocles, "Αττικώ
κ(άσεν) is to be found (Woodward, ABS A 26, 1923-25, 168 C 7 1. 2 and p. 192 [SEG
11, 1950, 565 app. crit. col. Ill 1. 2]). In about the early 130s A.D. he seems to have
held the office of the eponymous patronomos: IG V 1, 287 11. 7-8, add. p. 303;
Woodward, JHS Suppl. 5, 1929, 320 no. 44; Ameling, Herodes Atticus I, 29 n. 48
(text in II, 75-76 no. 46 and IG V 1, 288 11. 3-4); also in Woodward, JHS Suppl. 5,
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