Caecilia Metella (mother of Clodius Pulcher)
Caecilia Metella was a member of the ancient Roman plebeian family of the Caecilians and the daughter of the consul from 123 BC. BC, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Balearicus . Her brother was the consul from 98 BC. BC, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos . In the course of the Meteller's marriage policy , she married the consul of 79 BC. BC, Appius Claudius Pulcher . This connection had three sons and three daughters:
- Appius Claudius Pulcher , Consul 54 BC Chr.
- Gaius Claudius Pulcher , praetor 56 BC Chr.
- Publius Clodius Pulcher , Tribune of the People 58 BC Chr.
- Clodia, wife of Quintus Marcius Rex , consul 68 BC Chr.
- Clodia , wife of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer , consul 60 BC. Chr.
- Clodia, wife of the famous Roman general and consul from 74 BC. BC, Lucius Licinius Lucullus
The speaker Marcus Tullius Cicero reports that due to a dream of Caecilia Metella during the Martian War the temple of the goddess Iuno Sospita was built in 90 BC. Was restored by order of the Senate . When Sextus Roscius , the son of a landowner of the same name from Ameria , became destitute after the confiscation of his father's property during Sulla's proscriptions , Caecilia Metella granted him 80 BC. Admission to her home in Rome and support. She had been friends with his murdered father.
literature
- Friedrich Münzer : Caecilius 135). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 1235.
Remarks
- ↑ Cicero , De divinatione 1, 4; Pro Sexto Roscio Amerino 147.
- ↑ Cicero, De divinatione 1, 4 and 1, 99; Julius obsequens 55.
- ↑ Cicero, Pro Sexto Roscio Amerino 27; 147; 149.
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| SURNAME | Caecilia Metella |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Wife of Appius Claudius Pulcher (consul 79 BC), mother of the tribune Publius Clodius Pulcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 80 BC Chr. |