Claudia Marcella

Claudia Marcella was the name of the two daughters of Octavia Minor, the sister of Emperor Augustus, by her first husband, the consul Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor. According to Suetonius, they were known as The Marcellae sisters. The sisters were born in Rome. Between 40 BC - 36 BC, they 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 siblings. They were raised and educated by their mother, their maternal uncle, Augustus, and their maternal aunt-in-marriage Empress Livia Drusilla. Very little is known on these two daughters of Octavia Minor.