Appius Claudius Pulcher (consul 79 BC)

Appius Claudius Pulcher ( * before 125 BC, † probably 76 BC) was a politician of the late Roman Republic.

Appius Claudius Pulcher, son of the consul of the same name by 143 BC, was probably in 99 BC Quaestor and 89 or 88 BC, praetor. He was 88 BC banished as supporters of Sulla, Marius, Sulla was while in the east of the empire. When Lucius Cornelius Cinna had died in the year 84 BC, he returned to Rome. He was consul in 79 BC and governor of Macedonia from 78 BC to 76 BC After a victory over the Thracian tribe of the Scordisci he died of an illness.

From his wife Caecilia Metella Appius Claudius Pulcher had six children. His sons were Appius Claudius Pulcher (consul 54 BC ) Gaius Claudius Pulcher ( praetor 56 BC ), and the politician Publius Clodius Pulcher populare; his three daughters named Clodia had how this changed their name to the more popular form.

• Consul ( Roman Republic )
• Claudian
• Man
• Born in the 2nd century BC
• Died in the 1st century BC