Gaius Claudius Canina
Gaius Claudius Canina was a Roman statesman in the first third of the 3rd century BC. Chr.
According to the consular fasts , he was the son of a Marcus and grandson of a Gaius . Its cognomen sets it apart from the other branches of the branched gens Claudia ; but because of the filiation of the same name he could be a brother of the consul of 287 BC. BC, Marcus Claudius Marcellus .
His first consulate, from which no events have been recorded, he reached with Marcus Aemilius Lepidus in the year 285 BC. For the second time he was 273 BC. BC together with Gaius Fabius Licinus consul and triumphed on February 17, 272 BC. About Lucanians , Samnites and probably Bruttier . In 273 the colonies of Cosa and Paestum were founded; in addition, Ptolemaic ambassadors came to Rome to make friendship ( amicitia ).
Nothing is known about Canina's further life or descendants. The military tribune Gaius Claudius , who died in 264 BC. Chr. Messana and so triggered the First Punic War could have been his son.
literature
- Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Volume 1: 509 BC - 100 BC (= Philological Monographs. Vol. 15, Part 1, ZDB -ID 418575-4 ). American Philological Association, New York NY 1951, pp. 186, 196 f., (Unchanged reprint 1968).
- Friedrich Münzer : Claudius 98 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, Col. 2692 (with corrective addendum).
Remarks
- ↑ Velleius Paterculus 1,14,7.
- ↑ Eutropius 2:15.
- ^ Cassius Dio 11 fr. 43.5-10 = Zonaras 8.8.
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| SURNAME | Claudius Canina, Gaius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Canina, Gaius Claudius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman consul 285 BC BC and 273 BC Chr. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd century BC Chr. |