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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.
Obituary poetry, in the broad sense, includes poems or elegies that commemorate a person's or group of people's deaths. In its stricter sense, though, it refers to a genre of popular verse or folk poetry that had its greatest popularity in the nineteenth century, especially in the United States of America .
Both in composition and in publication, the poem had a chequered history. In its canonical form, it is composed of 419 lines of heroic couplets . [ 4 ] The Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot is notable as the source of the phrase " damn with faint praise ," which has subsequently seen so much common usage that it has become a cliché or idiom .
What is known of Tullia's life is from Plutarch's account of Cicero and the letters that Cicero wrote to others, particularly to her mother, and to his friend, the eques Titus Pomponius Atticus. In 66 BC, Tullia was betrothed to Gaius Calpurnius Piso Frugi. They were married in 63, when Tullia was fifteen or sixteen, and Piso not much older.
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 ...
Attica's father Titus Pomponius Atticus was at a relatively advanced age adopted by his maternal uncle, Quintus Caecilius, [b] this meant according to the Roman custom that his name changed to Quintus Caecilius Pomponianus Atticus; Attica is presumed to have been born after this and thus known as "Caecilia", but she has frequently been referred to as "Pomponia". [8]
Atticus King, a character in the comic series King of Spies by Mark Millar; Atticus Kodiak, a character in novels by Greg Rucka; Atticus Lincoln, a character in the television series Grey's Anatomy; Sir Atticus Moon, a character in Big Time Movie; Atticus Murphy Jr., a character in the television series Todd and the Book of Pure Evil