Appius Claudius Pulcher (consul 38 BC)

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Appius Claudius Pulcher († after 32 BC) was a Roman senator from the patrician clan of the Claudians and was 38 BC. Chr. Consul .

Life

Appius Claudius Pulcher was the son of Gaius Claudius Pulcher , who among others 58 BC. A legate of Gaius Iulius Caesar and 56 BC. Chr. Praetor was. The grandfather of Appius Claudius Pulcher was the consul of the same name from 79 BC. Chr.

During his exile, the speaker Marcus Tullius Cicero expressed 58 BC. In several letters to his friend Titus Pomponius Atticus, he expressed the fear that his brother Quintus could be brought to justice by Appius Claudius Pulcher because of his administration as governor of the province of Asia.

A younger brother of Appius Claudius Pulcher had probably originally led a different prenomen, perhaps Gaius , until he was told by his uncle, the consul of 54 BC. BC , was adopted and now also adopted the prenomen Appius . In order to be able to identify the brothers with the same name clearly, the older (treated here) Appius maior was named and his filiation (the patronymic Gaius) was sometimes added. After the notorious tribune Publius Clodius Pulcher , in January 52 BC. Was killed in a brawl with supporters of his opponent Titus Annius Milo , Appius Claudius Pulcher and his younger brother participated as plaintiffs in the now following court case against Milo, since Clodius had been her uncle. Milo was convicted and had to go into exile.

Appius Claudius Pulcher will be next in 50 BC. Mentioned, because it was probably he who brought back an army contingent from Gaul that year, which Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus had lent to his triumvirate colleague Caesar. In the civil war between Pompeius and Caesar that broke out soon afterwards, Appius Claudius Pulcher, according to an assumption by the ancient historian Friedrich Münzer, might initially have joined the Pompeian party, but there is no reliable information. Suetonius reports in the surviving section of his grammar and rhetorical vitae, which were part of his biographical compilation De viris illustribus , that Appius Claudius Pulcher and his brother - probably in the early 1940s BC. BC - heard the speech teacher Marcus Antonius Gnipho in Greece.

After Caesar's death, Appius Claudius Pulcher joined the party of the later triumvir, Mark Antony , without completely breaking with the Caesar murderers, as outlined in one of Cicero's 43 BC. Written recommendation letter for him, which was addressed to Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus . The fact that he was 38 BC Chr. Was elected consul, presupposes that he later completely fought on the victorious side of the triumvirs. As a proconsul he was militarily successful in Spain and was allowed to reward 32 BC. To hold a triumph . Two inscriptions were found in Herculaneum , according to which a theater was built by him or a statue of him was set up after his death. He also bears the Roman title of emperor on both inscriptions .

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ Cicero , Pro P. Sestio 41.
  2. ^ Cassius Dio 39, 21, 2.
  3. ↑ Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum 3, 17, 1; 3, 8, 2; 3, 9, 3.
  4. ^ Friedrich Münzer : Claudius 298). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, Col. 2853.
  5. ↑ Asconius , in pro Milone , pp. 35, 39f., 42 ed.Orelli.
  6. ↑ Plutarch , Pompey 57, 4.
  7. ^ Friedrich Münzer: Claudius 298). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, Col. 2854.
  8. ^ Suetonius, De illustribus Grammaticis 10.
  9. ^ Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares 11, 22.
  10. ↑ Cassius Dio 48, 43, 1; among others
  11. ↑ CIL 10, 1423 , CIL 10, 1424 .
personal data
SURNAME Claudius Pulcher, Appius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pulcher, Appius Claudius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 38 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH before 38 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 32 BC Chr.