Caecilia Metella (daughter of Balearicus)

[1] 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.

[2] This woman has been identified with the one who in 90 BC had a dream of Juno Sospita complaining about the neglect of her temple.

[6] Author Colleen McCullough included Metella as a character in her novel Fortune's Favourites, a fictionalised account of the demise of Sulla and rise of Julius Caesar.