Attius Tullius

Attius Tullius was a well-respected and influential political and military leader of the Volsci in the early fifth century BC. According to Plutarch,[1] who calls him Tullus Aufidius, his home town was Antium. Tullius sheltered the exiled Roman hero Gaius Marcius Coriolanus, then incited a war with Rome, in which he and Coriolanus led the Volscian forces. He appears in William Shakespeare's tragedy Coriolanus under the name of Tullus Aufidius.[2][3]

  1. ^ Plutarch, "The Life of Coriolanus", xx. 1–3; xxii. 1
  2. ^ Charles Peter Mason, "Coriolanus", and William Smith, "Tullius, Attius", in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, pp. 852, 853; vol. III, p. 1184.
  3. ^ Piero Treves, "Coriolanus", in Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd ed., pp. 290, 291.