Appius Claudius Pulcher (consul 212 BC)

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Appius Claudius Pulcher (died 211 BC) was a Roman general and politician of the 3rd century BC, active in the Second Punic War.

Family

He was the son of Publius Claudius Pulcher (consul 249 BC), and the father of Appius Claudius Pulcher (consul 185 BC), Publius Claudius Pulcher (consul 184 BC), and Gaius Claudius Pulcher (consul 177 BC). His daughter, Claudia, married Pacuvius Calavius, the chief magistrate of Capua in 217 BC.[1]

Career

In 217 BC, Claudius was an

Capua. At the close of his year of office, in pursuance of a decree of the Senate, he went to Rome and created two new consuls. His own command was prolonged another year. In the battle against Hannibal's forces before Capua, he received a wound from whose effects he died shortly after the surrender of the city. He ineffectually opposed the infliction of the sanguinary vengeance that Fulvius took on the Capuans.[7][8]

In popular culture

Appius Claudius Pulcher was played by Dimitri Diatchenko in the 2006 film The Secret Under the Rose.

Notes

  1. Ab Urbe Condita
    , xxiii. 2.
  2. ^ Livy, xxii. 53.
  3. ^ Livy, xxiii. 24, 30, 31, xxiv. 6, 7.
  4. ^ Livy, xxiv. 10, 21, 27, 29, 30, 33, 36.
  5. ^ Polybius, viii. 3, 5, 9.
  6. ^ Livy, xxiv. 39.
  7. ^ Livy, xxv. 2, 22, 41, xxvi. 1, 5, 6, 8, 15, 16.
  8. ^ Polybius, ix. 3.

References

This entry incorporates public domain text originally from:

  • William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.
Preceded by
Roman consul
212 BC
with Quintus Fulvius Flaccus
Succeeded by