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Marcus Claudius Marcellus (/ m ɑːr ˈ s ɛ l ə s /; c. 270 – 208 BC) was a Roman general and politician during the 3rd century BC.Five times elected as consul of the Roman Republic (222, 215, 214, 210, and 208 BC).
Marcellus was born into the Claudii Marcelli, a plebeian branch of the gens Claudia in 42 BC, the son of Gaius Claudius Marcellus and Octavia the Younger. [2] He had two full sisters named Claudia Marcella the Elder and Claudia Marcella the Younger [3] as well as two younger maternal half-sisters named Antonia the Elder and Antonia the Younger.
Marcus Claudius Marcellus (late 2nd to mid 1st century BC) was a politician and senator of the Roman Republic.He belonged to the tribus Arnensis. [1] He was the grandson [2] of another Marcus Claudius Marcellus (cos. 166, 155 and 152 BC) and the father [3] of two later consuls: Marcus Claudius Marcellus (cos. 51 BC), and Gaius Claudius Marcellus (cos. 49 BC).
Marcellus sent ambassadors back to the Senate in Rome, urging them to accept the peace proposals and end the long war in Spain. The Senate however, refused and began gathering a new army to be again sent to Spain the following year, appointing Lucius Licinius Lucullus, Consul-Elect for 151 BC, to replace Marcellus once his term as Consul ...
Marcellus was elected curule aedile in 56 BC. In 52 BC he was elected consul, together with Servius Sulpicius Rufus, for the following year.During his consulship, Marcellus proved himself to be a zealous partisan of Pompey and the optimates, and urged the Senate to extreme measures against Julius Caesar, managing to establish that the subject of recalling Caesar should be discussed on 1 March ...
He was the son of the famous general Marcus Claudius Marcellus (killed 208 BC), and possibly father of the three-time consul Marcus Claudius Marcellus (consul 166 BC). Marcellus first appears in Livy 's history when his father, then curule aedile , brought an action before the senate against his colleague Scantinius Capitolinus who had made ...
The Claudii Marcelli were a plebeian family, members of the nobiles with a long history of consulships throughout the history of the Republic. Following a century without the family reaching the consulship, three Claudii Marcelli were Consuls in succession: in 51 BC Marcus Claudius Marcellus (the brother of Gaius Marcellus); in 50 BC Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor (their cousin); and in 49 BC ...
Marcellus, character in William Shakespeare's tragic play Hamlet; Marcus Claudius Marcellus (42–23 B.C.), nephew of Augustus; Marcus Claudius Marcellus (fl. 3rd century B.C.), Roman consul and military leader Claudii Marcelli, any men from his clan branch of gens Claudia