Vipsania Marcella

Vipsania Marcella or just Vipsania (born 27 BC or later) was likely the name of two of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa's daughters by his second wife Claudia Marcella Major.[1] Some believe the two Vipsanias were the same woman whom married Publius Quinctilius Varus,[2] Quintus Haterius and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus. Ronald Syme believed the wives were three different people, and that the one who married Haterius was a daughter of Agrippa by his first wife. Tacitus hints that they may not have died in childbirth or of natural causes. He states that Agrippa's children were either killed in battle, starved to death or poisoned.[3] However, this may have just applied to Agrippa's children by Julia the Elder, emperor Augustus' daughter. Tacitus makes no specific comment their deaths, and the date of their deaths are unknown.

For other uses, see Vipsania (disambiguation).

Vipsania, wife of Varus
Main article: Vipsania (wife of Varus)

She was likely the first grandchild to Octavia Minor and first great-niece to Augustus. She was likely married to Publius Quinctilius Varus in about 14 BC.

Vipsania, wife of Lepidus
Main article: Vipsania (wife of Lepidus)

Second daughter, likely married Marcus Aemilius Lepidus.[4] If so, then a son of hers is recovered from a dedication inscription in the basilica Aemilia.[4]

Cultural depictions

In Robert Graves' books, I, Claudius and Claudius the God, a daughter of Agrippa and Marcella committs suicide for unexplained reasons, and later in the story Roman empress Livia claimed she killed herself over guilt for committing incest with her father, in order to secretly instigate his poisoning.

References
  1. Suet., Aug. 63.1.
  2. Meyer Reinhold, “M. Agrippa's Son-in-Law P. Quinctilius Varus,” CPh 67 (1972), 119-21).
  3. Tac., Ann. III 19.3.
  4. R. Syme, The Augustan Aristocraty, Oxford, 1986, p. 125.
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