Appius Claudius Pulcher (Consul 143 BC)

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Appius Claudius Pulcher (* before 180 BC; † between 132 BC and early 129 BC) was a politician of the Roman Republic .

Appius Claudius Pulcher was born in 143 BC. Chr. Consul and 136 v. Chr. Censor . He is also called princeps senatus at this time , but probably because of a mix-up . In his consulate, after a minor success over the Salasser , he wanted to hold a triumphal procession that was not approved by the Senate . A tribune threatened to drag him from the triumphal chariot. Pulcher's daughter Claudia stood on the wagon with her father and protected him as a vestal virgin by virtue of her inviolability .

Appius Claudius Pulcher was a rival of the younger Scipio and allied with Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus . He married another daughter of Pulcher, who was also called Claudia. Appius Claudius Pulcher secured Tiberius' land reform and formed a triumvirate with Tiberius and his brother Gaius to oversee the ager publicus , publicly owned land that Tiberius wanted to distribute among veterans of the Third Punic War . Another faction in the Senate opposed them and let Tiberius at the end of 132 BC. Assassinate. Appius Claudius Pulcher died between that year and the beginning of 129 BC. BC, the time of Scipio's death.

His wife was called Antistia and his son of the same name was 79 BC. Chr. Consul.

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SURNAME Claudius Pulcher, Appius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pulcher, Appius Claudius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician
DATE OF BIRTH before 180 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH around 130 BC Chr.