Gaius Claudius Crassus

Gaius Claudius Crassus was a Roman politician, briefly dictator in 337 BC.

Family

Caecus belonged to the patrician gens Claudia, one of the most important families of the Republic, which counted prominent men from its beginning to the Roman Empire. He was the father of Appius Claudius Caecus and the son of Appius Claudius Crassus, dictator in 362 and consul in 349.

Political career

Crassus was briefly dictator in 337, but had to resign immediately because the augurs had found a fault in his appointment.

Bibliography

• Livy, Ab Urbe Condita (English translation by Rev. Canon Roberts on Wikisource).
• T. Robert S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, American Philological Association, 1951–1952.
• George Converse Fiske, "The politics of the Patrician Claudii", Harvard Journal of Classical Philology, Vol. 13 (1902), p.1–59.