Suetonius on Tiberius' Ignominious Ancestors

Question 1

Claudius Russus

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Claudius Pulcher

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Publius Claudius Pulcher

Answer 3

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