person
Tiberius Coruncanius
Ti. Coruncanius
also: Ti. Coruncanius, Coruncanius
Consul of 280 BC and the first plebeian pontifex maximus, remembered as a most expert pontiff. Cicero invokes his name in De Domo Sua as the standard of pontifical knowledge that Clodius's botched rite fell short of.
Reading notes
- On the Nature of the Gods §3.5 Tiberius Coruncanius
The first plebeian pontifex maximus (early 3rd century BC), cited as a model of Roman religious authority. Cotta says that on religion he follows such chief pontiffs rather than the Stoic philosophers Zeno, Cleanthes, and Chrysippus.