Gaius Claudius Pulcher was a Roman consul in 92 BC, together with Marcus Perperna.
Biography
In 100 BC, he was one of those took up arms against Saturninus.Cicero pro Rctb. 7. In 99 BC, he was curule aedile, and in the games celebrated by him elephants were for the first time exhibited in the circus, and painting employed in the scenic decorations.Pliny the Elder Historia Naturalis viii. 7, xxxv. 7; Valerius Maximus ii. 4. § 6. In 95 BC, he was praetor in Sicily, and, by direction of the senate, gave laws to the Halesini respecting the appointment of their senate.Cicero, In Verre ii. 49. The Mamertines made him their patronus.Cicero, In Verre iv. 3. He was consul in 92 BC.Fasti Capitolini Cicero speaks of him as a man possessed of great power and some ability as an orator.Cicero, Brutus, 45
Children Gaius was a member of the aristocratic and patrician gens Claudia. His great-grandfather was Gaius Claudius Pulcher in 177 BC.
He may have been the father of the Appius Claudius Pulcher (military tribune in the year 87 BC) and Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus, who was adopted into the gens Livia by the reformer Marcus Livius Drusus. If he indeed is the father of Claudianus, he may have been married to a Livia, as adoption usually occurred between close relatives.Olli Salomies, Adoptive and Polyonymous Nomenclature in the Roman Empire (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1992), p. 35
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