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Gaius Claudius Pulcher (cos. 92)

His great-grandfather Gaius Claudius Pulcher was consul in 177 BC - along with Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus

🏛️ Career

  1. 99 BCE
    Aedile ·curule

    Broughton: Caius Claudius, whose aedileship we know to have been a most splendid affair, used this statue of Cupid, as long as he kept the forum decorated in honour of the immortal gods and the Roman people (Cicero Verrine Orations 2.4.6)

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • Inscr. Ital. 13.3, no. 70 b-CIL 12. 1, p. 200. Gave especially splendid games, and was the first to use elephants in venationes (Cic. Verr. 2.4.6 and 133; Har. Resp. 26; Off. 2.57; Val. Max. 2.4.6; Plin. NH 8.19, with the names of the Consuls; 35.23; cf. 21.6, where the praenomen is P.; Gran. Lic. 38 B).
    Career-overlap (2) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    M. Perperna (): 95 BCE (Praetor) , 92 BCE (Consul)

    M. Porcius Cato (): 99 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 92 BCE (Praetor)

  2. 95 BCE
    Praetor

    Broughton: Praetor in charge of cases of res repetundae. Commissioned by decree of the Senate, he drew up a constitution for Halaesa in Sicily (MRR2)

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • Praetor (Cic. Verr. 2.2.122) in charge of cases of res repetundae (Inscr. Ital. 13.3.70b-CIL 12.1, p. 200). Commissioned by decree of the Senate, he drew up a constitution for Halaesa in Sicily (Cic. Verr. 2.2.122).
    Career-overlap (2) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    M. Perperna (): 95 BCE (Praetor) , 92 BCE (Consul)

    M. Porcius Cato (): 99 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 92 BCE (Praetor)

  3. 92 BCE
    Consul · Co-consul: M. Perperna

    MT: Broughton (MRR2) cites Cicero Pro Caelio 33 but this passage presumably talks about Appius Claudius Caecus (censor in 312 BCE)

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • CIL 11.2.663; Fast. Ant., Degrassi 164f., and Fast. Cap., ibid. 54f., 129, 480f.; Elogium, Inscr. Ital. 13.3.70b-CIL 12.1, p. 200; Obseq. 53; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; and on Claudius, Cic. Cael. 33; Leg. 3.42; on Perperna, Val. Max. 8.13.4; Ascon. 28C; Plin. NH 7.156.
    Career-overlap (2) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    M. Perperna (): 95 BCE (Praetor) , 92 BCE (Consul)

    M. Porcius Cato (): 99 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 92 BCE (Praetor)

🏺 Family

  1. Adoptive parent
    Marcus Livius Drusus