Caecilia Metella

Caecilia Metella was the common name of the female members of Caecilius Metellus family. To distinguish them, they often wore their father's cognomen in female form.

Famous names winners

The best known

• Caecilia Metella ( Cretica ), daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus, Marcus Licinius Crassus wife of the junior and thus daughter of the triumvir Marcus Licinius Crassus. She is known mainly because of their large tomb on the Via Appia Antica, in the southeast of Rome.

Other names winners are:

• Caecilia Metella, daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus, wife of Gaius Servilius Vatia
• Caecilia Metella, sister of the preceding, wife of the consul of 111 BC, Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio
• Cecilia Metella dalmatic, daughter of Lucius Caecilius Metellus Delmaticus, successively wife of Marcus Aemilius Scaurus and older Lucius Cornelius Sulla
• Cecilia Metella Calva, mother of Lucullus
• Cecilia Metella Balearica Minor, Publius Clodius Pulcher mother of
• Cecilia Metella Celer, Publius Cornelius Lentulus wife of Spinther