Appius Claudius Crassus Inregillensis

Most of the historical events ascribed to his life have been questioned. Oakley rejects the historicity of Claudius's speech in 368 BC, asserting that neither Livy nor his sources would have had any authentic evidence of it, and he also notes that the Claudian family's opposition to the rights of plebeians is a recurring stereotype in Roman tradition.^[2] Oakley also found Claudius's dictatorship in 362 dubious,^[3] but Ferenczy accepted both the office and the campaign against the Hernici as historical.^[4] Some authors have also questioned the authenticity of the consulship in 349.^[5]

The historian Livy identifies Claudius, the consul in 349 BC, with Appius Claudius Crassus, consular tribune in 403 BC. Wiseman^[6] finds such a career length unlikely, and Münzer suggested that the literary tradition has confused two different two Appii Claudii.^[1] According to the Fasti Capitolini, a list of magistrates compiled during the time of Emperor Augustus, both the tribune and the consul were sons of Publius and grandsons of Appius, but only the consul is given the surname 'Inregillensis'.^[7]

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