Claudia (Roman legend)

Claudia was an ancient Roman Vestal Virgin and the daughter of Appius Claudius Pulcher.[1] She intervened to save her father from attack by a group of plebeians. The crowd attempted to drag him from his car during the celebration of his triumph, but Claudia interposed herself between her father and the attackers and accompanied her father up to the capital.[2]

Ill. from De mulieribus claris

References
  1. Smith, William. "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Vol. 1". Little, Brown, and Company, 1870. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
  2. Appius Claudius Pulcher (consul 143 BC)
  • Virginia Brown's translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Famous Women, pp 127 – 128; Harvard University Press, 2001; ISBN 0-674-01130-9
  • Valerius Maximus, Factorum at dictorum memorabilium libri V.4.6
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