Claudia Marcella Minor

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Claudia Marcella Minor
Spouse
Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus
Paullus Aemilius Regillus
Valeria Messallia (possibly)
HouseJulio-Claudian dynasty
FatherGaius Claudius Marcellus
MotherOctavia the Younger
Roman imperial dynasties
Julio-Claudian dynasty
Chronology
27 BC – AD 14
AD 14–37
AD 37–41
AD 41–54
AD 54–68
Preceded by
Roman Republic		 Followed by
Year of the Four Emperors

Claudia Marcella Minor

Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus she became the grandmother of the empress Messalina
.

Biography

Early life

Octavia was pregnant when she married

Antonia Major and Antonia Minor
.

Marriages

Marcella's first known marriage was to the former consul and censor

Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus, and likely a daughter, Claudia Pulchra.[6]

There has been some speculation among historians such as George Patrick Goold[7] that her daughter Claudia Pulchra might have actually been the child of Publius Claudius Pulcher (the son of Clodius) from an earlier marriage, but others such as Syme have rejected this proposal.[8] Syme does on the other hand agree that Paullus (nor Appianus) likely wasn't Marcella's first husband,[9] as the marriage is recorded rather late, he instead proposed a marriage to a son of Lucius Marcius Philippus[b] who may have died or been repudiated before he was old enough to be consul or to Marcus Appuleius, Marcella's maternal half-cousin who is assumed to have died some time after his consulship in 20 BC.[10] Klaus Zmeskal believes that it was she and not her sister who was married to Iullus Antonius.[11]

In the next generation two

gens Valeria led to the prominence of the Vipstani during the first centuries of the Roman Empire.[14]

Legacy

In a tomb near Rome, numerous inscriptions have survived of slaves and freedmen of Marcella.[15] A columbarium located between the Via Appia and Via Latina in Rome belonged to the family of Marcella.[1] According to epigraphical evidence, the work on it was completed in 10, when the urns were divided among the shareholders of the company which had built the place.[1]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Also known by the names Marcella Minor,[1] Claudia Marcella the Younger[2] and Marcella the Younger.
  2. Atia
    , the aunt of Marcella's mother Octavia. Philippus was also Octavia's step-brother.

References

  1. ^ a b c Kokkinos, Antonia Augusta: Portrait of a Great Roman Lady, p. 67
  2. ^ a b c d e Lightman, A to Z of Ancient Greek and Roman Women, p. 205
  3. ^ Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy, pp. 150-1
  4. ISBN 9780198147312
    .
  5. ^ Weber, Ernst Wilhelm (1985). Rheinisches Museum für Philologie. University of California: E. Weber.
  6. ^ Lightman, A to Z of Ancient Greek and Roman Women, p. 205; Gaius Stern, Women, Children and Senators on the Ara Pacis Augustae, Berk. diss. 2006, chapter 6.
  7. ISBN 9780674379206
    .
  8. ISBN 9780198147312
    .
  9. ISBN 9780198148739
    .
  10. ISBN 9780198147312
    .
  11. ISBN 9783888493041
    .
  12. ^ In Table IX of The Augustan Aristocracy, Syme indicates Lucius Vipstanus Gallus as the husband of Valeria Messallia, but notes the relationship is "conjectural".
  13. ^ Settipani, Continuité gentilice et continuité sénatoriale dans les familles sénatoriales romaines à l'époque impériale
  14. Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte
    , 11 (1962), pp. 149f
  15. ^ CIL VI 4418-4880
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