Gaius Claudius Pulcher (consul 92 BC)

Gaius Claudius Pulcher was a Roman Republic consul in 92 BC, together with Marcus Perperna. His great-grandfather was Gaius Claudius Pulcher (consul 177 BC).

In 100 BC he was one of those took up arms against Saturninus.^[1] 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.^[2] In 85 BC he was praetor in Sicily, and, by direction of the senate, gave laws to the Halesini respecting the appointment of their senate.^[3] The Mamertines made him their patronus.^[4] He was consul in 92 BC.^[5] Cicero speaks of him as a man possessed of great power and some ability as an orator.^[6]

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "^{article name needed}". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

1. Cicero pro Rctb. 7.
2. Pliny the Elder Historia Naturalis viii. 7, xxxv. 7; Valerius Maximus ii. 4. § 6.
3. Cicero, In Verre ii. 49.
4. Cicero, In Verre iv. 3.
5. Fasti Capitolini
6. Cicero, Brutus 45