The gens Cluvia was a Roman family during the later Republic, and early imperial times. The first member of the gens to achieve prominence was Gaius Cluvius Saxula, praetor in 175 and 173 BC.
The Cluvii were of Campanian origin. The earliest member of the family appearing in history was Faucula Cluvia, a courtesan at Capua during the Second Punic War.
The praenomina used by the Cluvii included Gaius, Spurius, and Marcus.
Branches and cognomina of the gens
The Cluvii do not appear to have been divided into distinct families. Individual members of the gens bore the personal cognomina Saxula, a little rock, and Rufus, red or reddish.
Faucula Cluvia, a Capuan courtesan at the time of the Second Punic War; she secretly provided food to the Roman prisoners, and when the city was captured, her liberty and property were restored by a special decree of the senate.
Gaius Cluvius Saxula, praetor in 175 BC, and praetor peregrinus in 173.
Spurius Cluvius, praetor in 172 BC, obtained Sardinia as his province.
Gaius Cluvius, legate of Lucius Aemilius Paullus in Macedonia, in 168 BC.
Gaius Cluvius, an eques, and a contemporary of Cicero, was judex in a suit between Gaius Fannius Chaerea and Quintus Flavius, about 76 BC.
Marcus Cluvius, a wealthy banker at Puteoli, and a friend of Cicero, to whom he bequeathed part of his property.
Gaius Cluvius, consul suffectus in 29 BC, was probably the same Cluvius appointed by Caesar to superintend the assignment of lands in Gallia Cisalpina in 45 BC, and who also seems to have been triumvir monetalis at some point.
Marcus Cluvius Rufus, consul suffectus in AD 45, and governor of Hispania under the emperor Galba in AD 69. He subsequently joined the party of Otho, then Vitellius. He is probably the same person as the historian Cluvius Rufus.
