Claudia Marcella

Claudia Marcella was the name of several women of ancient Rome of the Marcelli branch of the Claudia gens. By the late Republican period girls from this branch were often called "Clodia".[1]

A number of Marcellae are believed to have been the daughters of the consul Gaius Claudius Marcellus

The two surviving daughters of Octavia (the sister of Roman emperor Augustus) by Marcellus[5] became important in Augustus imperial plans. According to the Roman Historian Suetonius, they were known as "the Marcellae sisters" or "the two Marcellae".[6] The sisters were born in Rome and lived with their mother and their stepfather Triumvir Mark Antony in Athens, Greece. After 36 BC they accompanied their mother when she returned to Rome with their brother and half-sisters. They were raised and educated by their mother, their maternal uncle and their maternal aunt-in-marriage Roman Empress Livia Drusilla.[5] They and their siblings provided a critical link between the past of the Roman Republic and the new Roman Empire.[7] The marriages of the sisters and the children born to their unions assured republican family lines into the next generation.[8]

A number of other women could have been Marcellae:

References

  1. ^ Passehl, Mark. "cadet line of Servilii Caepiones (ver.2)".
  2. ^ "ANTIOCH under AUGUSTUS GENERAL VARUS of Teutoburg Forest Greek Coin Rare i50053 | #1793451037". 2020-05-06. Archived from the original on 2020-05-06. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
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  4. ^ a b Spyridon Lambros, Ἀνέκδοτον ἀπόσπασμα συγγραϕῆς περὶ τοῦ Καισαρείου γένους, Νέος Ἑλληνομνήμων 1 (1904), p. 148
  5. ^ a b Lightman, A to Z of Ancient Greek and Roman Women, pp. 204-5
  6. ^ Kleiner, Cleopatra and Rome, p.32
  7. ^ Lightman, A to Z of Ancient Greek and Roman Women, p. 205
  8. ^ Lightman, A to Z of Ancient Greek and Roman Women, p. 204
  9. ^ Rawson, Elizabeth (1991). Roman Culture and Society: Collected Papers. Clarendon Press. p. 565. ISBN 9780198147527.
  10. ^ Wiseman, Timothy Peter (1974). Cinna the Poet, and Other Roman Essays. Leicester University Press. p. 157. ISBN 9780718511203.
  11. ^ Bailey, D.R. Shackleton (2017). "Who is Junia?". American Journal of Ancient History. pp. 40–44. doi:10.31826/9781463237479-003. ISBN 9781463237479.
  12. ^ Tansey, Patrick. (2016) "A selective prosopographical study of marriage in the Roman elite in the Second and First Centuries B.C.: Revisiting the evidence". p, 9. Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University

Sources

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