Tiberius Claudius Verus

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Tiberius Claudius Verus (

magistracy of duovir in 62 AD, when an earthquake devastated the city on February 5.[1]

Claudius Verus lived near or along the Via di Nola.

Puteoli or Delos. They are associated with some of the largest houses in Pompeii, and their wealth suggests commercial interests.[7] It is possible that Verus and his faction were imperial freedmen.[8]

Verus's

sesterces): the inscription has been read both ways.[9] No gladiators were advertised; gladiatorial contests had been banned in Pompeii in 59 AD, following a riot in the amphitheatre.[10] Although the earthquake most likely caused the cancellation of the games, they may have been presented in some form for the sake of restoring morale.[11]

In the early decades following the discovery of the luxurious House of the Centenary in 1879, August Mau proposed that Verus had been its owner.[12] It has also been argued that the Centenary's owner was Aulus Rustius Verus,[13] with Claudius Verus living in an otherwise unidentified house at V.3. No scholarly consensus exists on Claudius Verus's address.[14]

References

  1. ^ James L. Franklin, Jr., Pompeis Difficile Est: Studies in the Political Life of Imperial Pompeii (University of Michigan Press, 2001), p. 133.
  2. ^ Franklin, Pompeis Difficile Est, p. 133.
  3. ^ Roger Ling, "A Stranger in Town: Finding the Way in an Ancient City," Greece & Rome 37 (1990), p. 204.
  4. ^ Franklin, Pompeis Difficile Est, pp. 133–134, 138.
  5. ^ Iuvenem integr[um], CIL IV.3741; Franklin, Pompeis Difficile Est, p. 138.
  6. ^ Franklin, Pompeis Difficile Est, p. 147. For more on campaign advertising in Pompeii, see Frank Frost Abbott, "Municipal Politics in Pompeii," Classical Journal 3 (1907) 58–66.
  7. ^ Franklin, Pompeis Difficile Est, p. 147.
  8. ^ Franklin, Pompeis Difficile Est, pp. 147–148.
  9. ^ CIL IV.7989a; Franklin, Pompeis Difficile Est, pp. 136–137; Antonio Varone, "Voices of the Ancients: A Stroll through Public and Private Pompeii," in Rediscovering Pompeii («L'Erma» di Bretschneider, 1990), p. 29. On this type of advertising, see Ray Laurence, Roman Pompeii: Space and Society (Routledge, 2007), pp. 172–173.
  10. ^ Franklin, Pompeis Difficile Est, p. 137; Laurence, Roman Pompeii, p. 173; recounted by Tacitus Annales 14.17.
  11. ^ Franklin, Pompeis Difficile Est, p. 137.
  12. ^ CIL IV.5229; August Mau, Pompeii: Its Life and Art, translated by Francis W. Kelsey (Macmillan, 1907), p. 559.
  13. ^ Franklin, Pompeis Difficile Est, p. 134, citing Matteo Della Corte, pp. 216–217.
  14. ^ Franklin, Pompeis Difficile Est, p. 134.
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