Dionysius Atticus

Dionysius Atticus of Pergamon was a rhetorician, sophist, historian, and speechwriter of ancient Greece, who lived around the 1st century BCE, and was probably born around 80 BCE.^[1][2][3][4]

He was a pupil of the celebrated Apollodorus of Pergamon, tutor of the Roman emperor Augustus. Dionysius was himself a teacher of rhetoric, and the author of several works, in which he explained the theory of Apollodorus. It would appear from his surname that he resided at Athens.^[5][6]

He has at times been identified as the author of the anonymous work On the Sublime, but there is no scholarly consensus around the true identity of that author.^[7] He also may be the same person as the Vipsanius Atticus described by Seneca the Elder as a disciple of Apollodorus from Pergamon, but there is also no consensus around this.^[2]