Vipsania Marcella
Vipsania Marcella is a name retrospectively given by historians to a possible daughter or daughters of the ancient Roman general Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and his second wife Claudia Marcella Major, the eldest niece of emperor Augustus.[1]
History
It was once thought that Agrippa and Marcella only had one surviving child together,
Cultural depictions
In Robert Graves' books, I, Claudius and Claudius the God, a single daughter of Agrippa and Marcella is mentioned to exist. She is depicted as having committed suicide for unexplained reasons early on, but later in the story Roman empress Livia claims that she killed herself over guilt for committing incest with her father, to secretly instigate his poisoning.
Notes
- Roman naming conventionsall daughters of a man were named the same thing in Republican Rome, the feminized form of their fathers nomen and as Agrippa was a Vipsanius all his daughters would have been named Vipsania.
References
- ^ Suet., Aug. 63.1.
- ISBN 9781473853812.
- ^ Meyer Reinhold, "M. Agrippa's Son-in-Law P. Quinctilius Varus," CPh 67 (1972), 119–21).
- ^ R. Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy, Oxford, 1986, p. 125.
- ISBN 9780198147312.
- ^ American Journal of Ancient History. Vol. 1–4. 1976. p. 140.
- ISBN 9783828855403.
- ^ Nogueira, Adeilson (2020). Gens Nas Moedas Romanas. Clube de Autores.