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Tyler Rich, the country music star, released a hit song called "Leave Her Wild," citing his wife was a "fan of Atticus and introduced him to his poetry.". Atticus cites a wide array of artists and writers as influences, including poets, musicians, and public figures from the mid-twentieth century, including Marcus Aurelius, Jack Kerouac, Ernest Hemingway, Mary Oliver, F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
Titus Pomponius Atticus (November 110 BC – 31 March 32 BC; later named Quintus Caecilius Pomponianus Atticus) [1] was a Roman editor, banker, and patron of letters, [clarification needed] best known for his correspondence and close friendship with prominent Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero.
Herodes Atticus (Ancient Greek: Ἡρώδης; AD 101–177) was an Athenian rhetorician, as well as a Roman senator. A great philanthropic magnate, he and his wife Appia Annia Regilla , for whose murder he was potentially responsible, commissioned many Athenian public works, several of which stand to the present day.
Epistulae ad Atticum (Latin for "Letters to Atticus") is a collection of letters from Roman politician and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero to his close friend Titus Pomponius Atticus. The letters in this collection, together with Cicero's other letters, are considered the most reliable sources of information for the period leading up to the fall ...
About 26 million federal student loan borrowers have applied for forgiveness under the Biden administration's debt relief program, the White House announced on Wednesday. When and if those ...
On the Laws, also known by its Latin name De Legibus (abbr. De Leg.), is a Socratic dialogue written by Marcus Tullius Cicero during the last years of the Roman Republic.It bears the same name as Plato's famous dialogue, The Laws.
The theme of poet as legislator reached its peak in the Romantic era, [1] epitomised in Shelley's view of poets as the 'unacknowledged legislators of the world'. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] However the concept had a long prehistory in Western culture, with classical figures like Orpheus or Solon being appealed to as precedents for the poet's civilising role.
Anne Gorsuch, a former chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, cut a flamboyant, defiant figure in early 1980s Washington as she slashed air and water quality regulations.