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The Tomb of Caecilia Metella (Italian: Mausoleo di Cecilia Metella) is a mausoleum located just outside Rome at the three mile marker of the Via Appia.It was built during the 1st century BC to honor Caecilia Metella, who was the daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus, a consul in 69 BC, and the wife of Marcus Licinius Crassus who served under Julius Caesar and was the son of the ...
In 53 BC, Metella Celer was married to Publius Cornelius Lentulus Spinther, a conservative politician, allied to her father's family. Like her mother, Metella did not content herself with a simple married life. Briefly after the wedding she started an affair with Publius Cornelius Dolabella, a man of the opposite political spectrum. Spinther ...
Creticus' sister, Caecilia Metella, was the wife of Gaius Verres, who was governor of Sicily from 73 BC to 71 BC. Creticus' daughter was also named Caecilia Metella. She married Marcus Licinius Crassus who was a son of Marcus Crassus, a member of the "First Triumvirate". Caecilia Metella's tomb still survives on the Via Appia.
Caecilia Metella was the daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Balearicus, consul in 123 BC. [2] [3] She was possibly married to Appius Claudius Pulcher, a politician of an old, somewhat impoverished, patrician family. As a member of an important family and married into another, Metella would be one of Rome's most esteemed matronas.
Caecilia Metella (died around 80 BC) was a Roman matron at the beginning of the 1st century BC. The daughter of the pontifex maximus Lucius Caecilius Metellus Dalmaticus , she married two of the most prominent politicians of the period, first the princeps senatus Marcus Aemilius Scaurus , then Lucius Cornelius Sulla .
Lucius Caecilius Jucundus, a Pompeian banker.. The gens Caecilia was a plebeian [i] family at ancient Rome.Members of this gens are mentioned in history as early as the fifth century BC, but the first of the Caecilii who obtained the consulship was Lucius Caecilius Metellus Denter, in 284 BC.
C. Gaius Valerius Caburus; Caecilia Metella (daughter of Balearicus) Caecilia Metella (daughter of Celer) Gaius Caecilius Metellus Caprarius; Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus Silanus
Caecilia Metella (daughter of Balearicus) Caecilia Metella (daughter of Celer) Caecilia Metella (daughter of Delmaticus) Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus Silanus; Lucius Caecilius Metellus (consul 251 BC) Lucius Caecilius Metellus Calvus; Gaius Caecilius Metellus Caprarius; Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer; Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus