Appius Claudius Pulcher (Consul 54 BC)

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Appius Claudius Pulcher (* around 97 BC; † 48 BC in Euboea ) was a politician of the late Roman Republic , son of the consul of the same name from 79 BC. BC and Caecilia Metella and brother of Publius Clodius Pulcher .

Appius Claudius Pulcher was from 72 to 70 BC. BC Military tribune in the east under Lucius Licinius Lucullus . Lucullus sent him to the Armenian king Tigranes II , so that this Mithridates VI. move from Pontus to surrender. 57 BC He was praetor , 56 BC. Chr. Propraetor of Sardinia , 54 v. Chr. Consul , 53–51 BC BC Proconsul of Cilicia in Asia Minor and 50 BC Chr. Censor . In contrast to his brother, who changed the spelling of the name as the lower class pronounced it, Appius Claudius Pulcher supported the Optimates and excluded the writer Sallust , a supporter of Gaius Iulius Caesar and the Populares , from the Senate as censor . In the same year he was accused of bribery by Publius Cornelius Dolabella , but acquitted with the help of Pompey , Cicero and Hortensius . He supported Pompey against Caesar and was appointed by him as governor of Achaea . He had the lower Propylaea built there in Eleusis and died before the battle of Pharsalus in 48 BC. BC on Euboea .

Since 63 BC at the latest Claudius Pulcher belonged to the college of augurs .

His daughter was married to the later Caesar murderer, Marcus Junius Brutus , with whom they had four children. 45 BC However, he divorced her in order to marry his cousin Porcia . Another daughter was married to Pompey's son Gnaeus Pompey .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Valerius Maximus 1, 8, 10.
  2. ^ Cicero, De divinatione 1, 105 .
personal data
SURNAME Claudius Pulcher, Appius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pulcher, Appius Claudius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician, consul 54 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH around 97 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 48 BC Chr.
Place of death Euboea