Appius Claudius Pulcher (consul 54 BCE)

Appius Claudius Pulcher (97 BCE – 49 BCE) is a consul of the Roman Republic in 54 BCE.

He is an expert in Roman law and antiquities, especially the esoteric lore of the augural college of which he is a controversial member.

He is head of the senior line of the most powerful family of the patrician Claudii.

The Claudii are one of the five leading families (gentes maiores or "Greater Clans") that hadve dominated Roman social and political life from the earliest years of the republic.

He is best known as the recipient of 13 of the extant letters in Cicero's ad Familiares corpus (the whole of book III), which date from winter 53-52 to summer 50 BCE.

Regrettably, they do not include any of Appius' replies to Cicero as extant texts of any sort by members of Rome's ruling aristocracy are quite few and rare, apart from those of Julius Caesar.

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