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    Author: * Mamercus Valerius - 1 Post on this thread out of 118 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Oct 14, 2003 - 09:48

    This is short "family tree" of real Appius Pulcher, now NPC of Paullus Fabius. Lately Appius Pulcher was quite aggressive in Senate House. Please feel free to correct or complement the facts.



    Appius Claudius Pulcher
    As a supporter of Sulla he went into voluntary exile in 88 BC and returned Rome after Cinna’s death in 84. Was praetor 88 BC, consul in 79 and governed Macedonia from 78 until 76, when he died there. Still alive in RR.



    Father: Appius Claudius Pulcher
    Hostile to to Scipio Amelianus supported the Gracchan reforms, father-in-law of Tiberius Gracchus.
    Consul in 143 BC, censor 136 and after that leader of the Senate, Princeps Senatus. Died c. 130 BC.


    Wife:
    Some sources say he had two wifes; the better known is Caecilia Metella, daughter of Q. Metellus Balearicus, consul in 123, and sister of Q. Metellus Nepos, consul in 98 BC.

    children:
    Appius Claudius Pulcher
    During his father’s exile in 80s BC he took care of his brothers and sisters. Served in the east as as military tribune under his brother-in-law L. Licinius Lucullus from 72 to 70 BC. Praetor in 57 BC, consul in 54 and tried to sell the consulship for the next year. Censor in 50 BC. Married a Servilia and had two daughters who were married with Gnaeus Pompeius (son of Pompey) and the M. Brutus (before he married Porcia). Ally of Pompey, died in 49 in Greece. Adopted his nephews Appius Claudius Pulcher (consul in 38) and Pulcher Claudius.

    Caius Claudius Pulcher
    Praetor in 56 BC. Sons: Appius Claudius Pulcher and Pulcher Claudius

    Publius Clodius Pulcher
    Was born about 92 BC, the youngest of the three sons. The infamous pupulist. Incited the troops of his brother-in-law Lucullus to mutiny in 68 BC. Served also on the staff of his other brother-in-law Q. Marcius Rex. In 62 the infamous Bona Dea scandal in the house of Pontifex Maximus, Gaius Julius Caesar. Was quaestor in 60. He in indulged in gang warfare in Rome and was murdered by Titus Annius Milo in 52 BC just before praetor elections. Married to Fulvia. Had a son, Publius Clodius Pulcher and a daughter, Clodia, who was married to Octavian (Augustus) from 43 to 41 BC.

    Clodia
    Born c. 97, was only offspring of his father’s first marriage. Married to Q. Caecilius Metellus eler, consul in 60 BC, son of Q. Caecilius Metellus Nepos, in c. 79 or as late as 63 BC(?). Cicero described he as ”a woman of no morals, ready to poison her husband (died 59 BC) and to commit incest with her brother.” Presumably she was Lesbia, the deceitful lover of poet Catullus in 50s.

    Clodia
    Married to L. Licinius Lucullus (born c. 110), consul in 74 BC. Divorced from him on his return to Rome the east in 65-64. Supposedly their marriage began before 74. ”An dissolute and wicked woman” according to Plutarch, who also implies about her committing in incest with her brother. Recently widowed in RR.

    Clodia (Tertia?)
    Married to Q. Marcius Rex, consul in 68 BC, who died in 63.

    Sources:
    Hazel, Who’s who in the Roman world.
    Plutarch, Lucullus
    Syme, Roman revolution and Augustan Aristocracy


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