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'''Claudia Marcella''' was the name of several women of ancient Rome of the [[Claudii Marcelli|Marcelli]] branch of the [[Claudia gens]]. By the late [[Roman Republic|Republican period]] girls from this branch were often called "[[Clodia]]".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Passehl|first=Mark|title=cadet line of Servilii Caepiones (ver.2)|url=https://www.academia.edu/12853591|language=en}}</ref>

A number of Marcellae are believed to have been the daughters of the consul [[Gaius Claudius Marcellus (consul 50 BC)|Gaius Claudius Marcellus]]
* Claudia Marcella, a proposed daughter by an unknown woman, this Marcella might have been the mother of [[Publius Quinctilius Varus]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-05-06|title=ANTIOCH under AUGUSTUS GENERAL VARUS of Teutoburg Forest Greek Coin Rare i50053 {{!}} #1793451037|url=https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antioch-augustus-general-varus-1793451037|access-date=2020-09-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200506112126/https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antioch-augustus-general-varus-1793451037|archive-date=2020-05-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|first=Christian|last=Settipani|authorlink=Christian Settipani|trans-title=Kinship Continuity and Family Continuity in Roman Senatorial Families in the Imperial Period|language=French|title=Continuité gentilice et Continuité familiale dans les familles sénatoriales romaines à l'époque impériale|editor=Oxford University|publisher=Linacre College|series=Prosopographica & Genealogica|pages=597|year=2000|isbn=1-900934-02-7}}</ref>
* [[Claudia Marcella Major]], (? - ?) oldest surviving daughter by Octavia Minor, married [[Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa]]
* [[Claudia Marcella Minor]], (? - ?) youngest surviving daughter by Octavia Minor, grandmother of empress [[Messalina]]
* Claudia Marcella Ignota Prima, (? - ?) a daughter by [[Octavia Minor]] who died in childhood<ref name=Four>[[Spyridon Lambros]], ''Ἀνέκδοτον ἀπόσπασμα συγγραΦῆς [[περὶ τοῦ Καισαρείου γένους]]'', Νέος Ἑλληνομνήμων 1 (1904), p. 148</ref>
* Claudia Marcella Ignota Secunda, (? - ?) a daughter by Octavia Minor who died in childhood<ref name=Four/>
The two surviving daughters of Octavia (the sister of [[Roman emperor]] [[Augustus]]) by Marcellus<ref name=Lightman-204a>Lightman, ''A to Z of Ancient Greek and Roman Women'', pp. 204-5</ref> became important in Augustus imperial plans. According to [[The Twelve Caesars|the Roman Historian Suetonius]], they were known as "the Marcellae sisters" or "the two Marcellae".<ref>Kleiner, ''Cleopatra and Rome'', p.32</ref> The sisters were born in [[Ancient Rome|Rome]] and lived with their mother and their stepfather Triumvir [[Mark Antony]] in [[Ancient Athens|Athens]], [[Ancient Greece|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.<ref name=Lightman-204a/> They and their siblings provided a critical link between the past of the [[Roman Republic]] and the new [[Roman Empire]].<ref name=Lightman-205>Lightman, ''A to Z of Ancient Greek and Roman Women'', p. 205</ref> The marriages of the sisters and the children born to their unions assured republican family lines into the next generation.<ref name=Lightman-204>Lightman, ''A to Z of Ancient Greek and Roman Women'', p. 204</ref>

A number of other women could have been Marcellae:
*[[Claudia (wife of Catulus)|Claudia]], last wife of [[Quintus Lutatius Catulus]] may have been a Marcella<ref>{{Cite book|title=Roman Culture and Society: Collected Papers|last=Rawson|first=Elizabeth|publisher=Clarendon Press|year=1991|isbn=9780198147527|pages=565}}</ref> if she was she was likely a daughter of [[Gaius Marius]]' friend and legate [[Marcus Claudius Marcellus (praetor 105 BC)|Marcus Claudius Marcellus]].
* [[Clodia (wife of Callaicus)|Clodia]], wife of [[Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus]] and mother of [[Decimus Junius Brutus (consul 77 BC)|Decimus Junius Brutus]] may have been a Marcella.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Cinna the Poet, and Other Roman Essays|last=Wiseman|first=Timothy Peter|publisher=Leicester University Press|year=1974|isbn=9780718511203|pages=157}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.31826/9781463237479-003/pdf|doi=10.31826/9781463237479-003|chapter=Who is Junia?|title=American Journal of Ancient History|year=2017|last1=Bailey|first1=D.R. Shackleton|pages=40–44|isbn=9781463237479}}</ref>
* The wife of [[Publius Autronius Paetus]] may have been a Marcella.<ref>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</ref>

==References==
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==Sources==
;Ancient
* [[Plutarch]], ''Life of Mark Antony''
* [[Suetonius]], "Augustus", ''The Twelve Caesars''
* [[Tacitus]], ''Annales''
;Modern
* Annelise Freisenbruch, ''Caesars' Wives: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Roman Empire'', Simon and Schuster, 2011
* Diana E. E. Kleiner, ''Cleopatra and Rome'', Harvard University Press, 2009
* N. Kokkinos, ''Antonia Augusta: Portrait of a Great Roman Lady'', Psychology Press, 1992
* M. Lightman & B. Lightman, ''A to Z of Ancient Greek and Roman Women'', Infobase Publishing, 2008
* G. Stern, ''Women, Children, and Senators on the Ara Pacis Augustae: A Study of Augustus' Vision of a New World Order in 13 BC'', ProQuest, 2006
* Ronald Syme, ''The Augustan Aristocracy'', Oxford University Press, 1989

==External links==
* [https://www.livius.org/articles/person/octavia-minor/ Octavia Minor] at Livius.org (last accessed 5 April 2020)

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