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". 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 became important in Augustus imperial plans. According to the Roman Historian Suetonius, they were known as "the Marcellae sisters" or "the two Marcellae". 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. They and their siblings provided a critical link between the past of the Roman Republic and the new Roman Empire. The marriages of the sisters and the children born to their unions assured republican family lines into the next generation. A number of other women could have been Marcellae: