Arria was a philosopher and Platonist of the 2nd century CE. We know that she was a friend of the medical annalist Galen, and was admired by Roman emperors Septimius Severus and Caracalla.[1][2]
Scholar Gilles Ménage, in his Historia Mulierum Philosopharum, proposed that it was to this Arria that Diogenes Laërtius dedicated his Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers.[3]
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William (1870). "Arria (3)". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 350.