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Summary
- Atticus is not in the Bible. Atticus Aemilius Pulcher, the Roman investigator in The Chosen, is a character created for the series, which says it has added “some characters.”
- The urban cohorts he serves in were real: Augustus created them to police Rome.
- The name comes from the Greek Attikos, “from Attica,” the region around Athens. Cicero’s friend Titus Pomponius Atticus and Harper Lee’s Atticus Finch are its best-known bearers.
- Athens is in the Bible: Paul preached at the Areopagus beside an altar “to an unknown god” (Acts 17:22-23).
- Atticus, archbishop of Constantinople from 406 to 425, sent gold to feed the poor of Nicaea “whether they agree with us in sentiment, or not.”
Bibliography (Click to show)
Sources: Behind the Name entry for Atticus; Wikipedia, “List of The Chosen characters,” “The Chosen (TV series),” “Cohortes urbanae,” “Titus Pomponius Atticus” and “Atticus of Constantinople”; Socrates Scholasticus, Church History, Book VII, in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers translation (New Advent); Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (Acts 17:16, 22-23, 32, 34).
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