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Marcellus was born into the Claudii Marcelli, a plebeian branch of the gens Claudia in 42 BC, the son of Gaius Claudius Marcellus and Octavia the Younger. [2] He had two full sisters named Claudia Marcella the Elder and Claudia Marcella the Younger [3] as well as two younger maternal half-sisters named Antonia the Elder and Antonia the Younger.
Gaius Claudius Marcellus (88 BC – May 40 BC) was a Roman senator who served as Consul in 50 BC. He was a friend to Roman senator Cicero and an early opponent of Julius Caesar . He was also noteworthy for marrying the sister of the future emperor Augustus , Octavia the Younger , with whom he fathered M. Marcellus , who was for a while Augustus ...
Lacking any male child and heir, Augustus married his only child—a daughter—Julia to his nephew Marcus Claudius Marcellus. Marcellus, however, died of food poisoning in 23 BC. Augustus then married his widowed daughter to his loyal friend, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, previously married
In 23, the domination of Augustus began to cause the emperor some political difficulties, which were compounded by his apparent desire to groom his nephew Marcellus as his political heir. Problems in the political alliance between Augustus, Livia , Maecenas and Agrippa over his succession plans saw Augustus search around for potential support ...
Augustus prepared to hand down his signet ring to his favored general Agrippa. However, Augustus handed over to his co-consul Piso all of his official documents, an account of public finances, and authority over listed troops in the provinces while Augustus's supposedly favored nephew Marcellus came away empty-handed.
Tragically, 31 states and Washington, D.C., still permit their courts to order the sterilization of people with disabilities. The process is far more complicated today, but the outcome is the same ...
On Tuesday night, the state of Missouri executed Marcellus Williams. It was a legally sanctioned murder. As the Washington Post put it, he was “convicted of a 1998 murder that he said he did not ...
He had considered the possibility of making his nephew Marcellus his successor, but had ultimately decided that Marcellus was too young. In 21 BC Marcellus died and Augustus married Agrippa to his daughter Julia, and in 18 BC Augustus enacted a law that granted Agrippa tribunician powers for a period of five years. [8]