Publius Claudius Pulcher (Consul 184 BC)
Publius Claudius Pulcher was a member of the Roman patrician family of the Claudians and 184 BC. Chr. Consul .
Life
Publius Claudius Pulcher was the second son of the consul from 212 BC. BC, Appius Claudius Pulcher . The first known office of his cursus honorum is his curular aedility , which he gave in 189 BC. Chr. Held. 187 BC He became praetor .
185 BC Publius 'brother Appius Claudius Pulcher exercised the consulate and actively supported Publius' candidacy for the highest office in the following year. With this fraternal help Publius Claudius Pulcher was surprisingly made consul for 184 BC. Elected, where he had Lucius Porcius Licinus as an official colleague. Both consuls were sent to Liguria to wage war without winning major victories. The Roman historian Titus Livius reports that he is not aware of anything worth mentioning from her consulate.
According to an ologium, Publius Claudius Pulcher had led new settlers to the Cales colony in Campania (now Calvi Risorta in the province of Caserta ) before he became consul. 181 BC As consular he was one of three commissioners who founded a Roman colony in Graviscae on the Etrurian coast.
literature
- Friedrich Münzer : Claudius 305). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, Col. 2858.
Remarks
- ↑ Livy 38, 35, 5.
- ↑ Livius 39, 32, 5 and ö .; Fasti Capitolini ; CIL 6, 31586 ; among others
- ↑ Livy 39:38, 1; 39, 44, 11; 39, 45, 3.
- ↑ CIL 6, 31586.
- ↑ CIL 6, 31586; Livy 40, 29, 2.
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| SURNAME | Claudius Pulcher, Publius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pulcher, Publius Claudius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman consul 184 BC Chr. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd century BC Chr. |