that Caligula divorced her before she died. It is hard to guess what the marriage would have meant to Caligula but he seems to have begun an affair with the woman Ennia Thrasylla, the wife of Naevius Sutorius Macro, only after Claudilla's death. Anthony Barrett has speculated that since Dio and Tacitus claim that Macro introduced his wife to Caligula upon Claudilla's death, that it is possible that Macro was taking advantage of the prince's vulnerable state and intended to gain influence by having his wife console the young man. Ancient sources claim that Caligula ordered her father to commit suicide to deliver her a message, but the veracity of this claim is doubtful. There were no known coins issued of Claudilla, possibly because she died before Caligula became emperor. There have however been falsified coins purported to be of Claudilla found. Roman imperial historian Suetonius for unknown reasons almost entirely omits Claudilla from his account of the emperor's life. This may have been done because there was little opportunity to paint Caligula poorly during the period. Seutonius's portrayal of his later three marriages includes mentions of adultery, homosexuality and debauchery. Suetonius even twists Caligula's wife Milonia's fertility as a flaw. A flat Sardonyx cameo (numbered 578) from the Marlborough gem collection is described as depicting Junia Claudia. Cultural depictions In the opera Arminio by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, parts of Claudilla are incorporated with those of the fellow historical woman Thusnelda to create the character "Claudia" who serves as a love interest for "Caligola". Claudilla is mentioned in I, Claudius and parts of her story are incorporated in the TV series into the character of Drusilla, Caligula's sister, who dies while pregnant with Caligula's child. Claudilla appears in Simon Turney's novel Caligula (2018). In the book Caligula is described to genuinely love her and is heartbroken upon her death. It is stated that the midwife refused to choose between her and the child and ended up losing both of them. She is mentioned by her husband in Caligula: The Tyranny of Rome as he laments that had she not died along with their son he may have turned out to be a different man. He describes her as beautiful and kind while explaining to the main character Rufus why he wants to save Rufus sons life. See also List of Roman women List of women who died in childbirth