Aelius Antipater
, Sophist
Aelius Antipater
, Sophist
- Anthony R. Birley
Extract
Aelius Antipater sophist, of Phrygian Hierapolis, ab epistulis Graecis (‘secretary for Greek correspondence’) of *Severus, teacher of the emperor's sons, was made a senator with consular rank and governed Bithynia. He wrote a history of Severus. Took his own life after the murder of *Geta.
Subjects
- Roman History and Historiography