The ''gens Ateia'' was a

plebeian In ancient Rome, the plebeians (also called plebs) were the general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census, or in other words " commoners". Both classes were hereditary. Etymology The precise origins of ...

family at Rome. The

gens In ancient Rome, a gens ( or , ; plural: ''gentes'' ) was a family consisting of individuals who shared the same Roman naming conventions#Nomen, nomen and who claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of a gens was called a ''stirps'' (p ...

does not appear to have been particularly large or important, and is known from a small number of individuals.

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* Marcus Ateius, the first soldier to climb the walls of Athens during the siege of that city by

Sulla Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (; 138–78 BC), commonly known as Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman. He won the first large-scale civil war in Roman history and became the first man of the Republic to seize power through force. Sulla had ...

in 86 BC. * Gaius Ateius Capito, tribune of the plebs in 55 BC, famous for announcing terrible omens upon the departure of

Crassus Marcus Licinius Crassus (; 115 – 53 BC) was a Roman general and statesman who played a key role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. He is often called "the richest man in Rome." Wallechinsky, David & Wallace, I ...

for

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

. * Gaius Ateius C. f. Capito, one of the most distinguished jurists of the early Empire, and consul ''suffectus'' in AD 5. *

Lucius Ateius Praetextatus Lucius ( el, Λούκιος ''Loukios''; ett, Luvcie) is a male given name derived from ''Lucius'' (abbreviated ''L.''), one of the small group of common Latin forenames (''praenomina'') found in the culture of ancient Rome. Lucius derives from L ...

, surnamed ''Philologus'', a notable grammarian of the first century BC. * Ateius Sanctus, an incorrect form of T. Aius Sanctus, the orator and a teacher of the emperor

Commodus Commodus (; 31 August 161 – 31 December 192) was a Roman emperor who ruled from 177 to 192. He served jointly with his father Marcus Aurelius from 176 until the latter's death in 180, and thereafter he reigned alone until his assassination. ...

.Anthony Richard Burley, ''Marcus Aurelius'' (Routledge, 1966, 1987), p. 19
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and ''Lives of the Later Caesars'' (Penguin, 1976), p. 16
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E.L. Bowie, "The Importance of Sophists," ''Later Greek Literature'' (Cambridge University Press, 1982), p. 5
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Tim Cornell Timothy J. Cornell (born 1946) is a British historian specializing in ancient Rome. He is an Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at the University of Manchester, having retired from his teaching position in 2011. Cornell received his bachelor's ...

(editor), ''The Fragments of the Roman Historians'', Oxford University Press, 2013. Roman gentes {{Roman-gens-stub

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