Amafinius
Sign in to saveAlso known as Gaius Amafinius, Amafanius, Gaius Amafanius
Gaius Amafinius (or Amafanius) was one of the earliest Roman writers in favour of the Epicurean philosophy. He probably lived in the late 2nd and early 1st century BC. He wrote several works, which are censured by Cicero as deficient in arrangement and style. He is mentioned by no other ancient writer but Cicero. In the Academica, Cicero reveals that Amafinius translated the Greek concept of atoms as corpusculi ("corpuscles") in Latin.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ancient Rome
- Place of birth
- Ancient Rome
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Movement
- Epicureanism
Show 6 more facts
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
- praenomen
- Gaius
- gens
- Amafinia gens
- floruit
- 0100-00-00
- date of death
- 0100-00-00
- writing language
- Latin
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~2 min read
Encyclopedic overview
2 sectionsContents
- References
- Bibliography
Gaius Amafinius (or Amafanius) was one of the earliest Roman writers in favour of the Epicurean philosophy. He probably lived in the late 2nd and early 1st century BC. He wrote several works, which are censured by Cicero as deficient in arrangement and style. He is mentioned by no other ancient writer but Cicero. In the Academica, Cicero reveals that Amafinius translated the Greek concept of atoms as corpusculi ("corpuscles") in Latin.
In his Tusculan Disputations, Cicero disapprovingly notes that Amafanius was one of the first philosophers writing in Latin at Rome:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Amafinius” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.