Herodes Atticus

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Herodes Atticus (lived 101–177 AD) was an Athenian rhetorician and a Roman senator. He was also a great philanthropic magnate and commissioned many public buildings in Athens, many of which still exist today. He taught rhetoric to the Roman emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus and became a member of the consulship in 143. Herodes Atticus was an expert civil engineer and famous for his construction of water supply systems. In 125, the Roman emperor Hadrian appointed him prefect of the free cities of the Roman province of Asia, in Asia Minor (modern-day Türkiye).

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