Claudia (Vestal Virgin)
Claudia was a in the 2nd century BC. Living member of the ancient Roman patrician family of Claudians and a vestal virgin .
Life
Claudia was a daughter of the consul from 143 BC. BC, Appius Claudius Pulcher . He wanted to celebrate a triumph during his consulate and for this purpose, in the absence of other alternatives, fought against the Salasser tribe based in northwestern Italy . However, at the beginning he suffered a severe setback against the Alpine people and only achieved moderate success in a second battle after a sacrificial ritual had been carried out by the Decemvirn . To the Senate , the consul's achievement seemed too insignificant to grant him a triumph. Appius Claudius Pulcher did not submit to this decision of the Senate and carried out the triumph at his own expense. A tribune tried to violently prevent the consul's plan. But Claudia, sacrosanct as a vestal virgin, proved her love for her father by standing next to him on the triumphal chariot and so, by virtue of her inviolability, prevented him from being dragged off the vehicle.
On coins that the Claudian mint master Gaius Clodius Vestalis 41 BC. A seated female figure is depicted, which is interpreted as an allusion to the Vestal Virgin Claudia.
A sister of the same name, Claudias, married the tribunes of 133 BC. BC, Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus .
literature
- Friedrich Münzer : Claudius 384) . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, Col. 2886.
- Claudia III . In: Bernhard Kytzler : Frauen der Antike , 1997, p. 51.
- Tanja Itgenshorst : Tota illa pompa. The triumph in the Roman Republic . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-25260-9 , pp. 259–262 (CD-ROM supplement 2).
Remarks
- ↑ Livius , periochae 53; Orosius 5, 4, 7; Cassius Dio , fragment 74, 1.
- ^ Iulius Obsequens 21; Orosius 5, 4, 7.
- ↑ Cassius Dio, fragment 74, 2; Orosius 5, 4, 7; Macrobius , Saturnalia 3, 14, 14.
- ↑ Cicero , Pro M. Caelio 34; Valerius Maximus 5, 4, 6; Suetonius , Tiberius 2.
- ↑ See Tanja Itgenshorst: Tota illa pompa. The triumph in the Roman Republic . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-25260-9 , pp. 260-261 (CD-ROM insert 2). Illustrations .
- ↑ Plutarch , Tiberius Gracchus 4, 1-4; Appian , Civil Wars 1, 55; Livy, periochae 58.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Claudia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Vestal virgin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 143 BC Chr. |