Vipsania Marcella is a name retrospectively given by historians to a possible daughter or daughters of the ancient Roman general Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and his second wife Claudia Marcella Major, the eldest niece of emperor Augustus.
[a] But as new information was discovered and men such as Quintus Haterius, Publius Quinctilius Varus,[3] and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus[4] began to be speculated to have been Agrippa's sons-in-law by a daughter or daughters of Marcella opinions began to shift.
[5] Meyer Reinhold rebutted and argued that Varus wife was the daughter of Pomponia, L. Koenen has entertained this possibility as well,[6] while Franziska Knopf thought that Haterius wife could be Marcella's daughter.
Nonetheless Syme's view hold majority opinion in the 21st century.
She is depicted as having committed suicide for unexplained reasons early on, but later in the story Roman empress Livia claims that she killed herself over guilt for committing incest with her father, to secretly instigate his poisoning.