Suetonius on Tiberius' Ignominious Ancestors Flashcards

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Claudius Russus

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Set up a crowned image of himself in a town called Appius’ forum and attempted to conquer Italy

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Claudius Pulcher

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Consul, at naval battle of Sicily, ignored omens by throwing ‘sacred chickens’ into the sea and thus, lost the battle

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Publius Claudius Pulcher

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Forsook his patrician to become a plebeian (60 BCE), take on tribunician power and banished Cicero for executing Roman citizens w/o proper trial (2nd Catalinarian Conspiracy), also accused of seducing Julius Caesar’s wife, Pompeia, at the festival of the Bona Dea

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