Caelia Macrina
Flourished circa C.E. 150, Tarracina, Italy
Little is known about the Roman woman Caelia Macrina except that some time in the second century C.E., in the town of Tarracina southeast of Rome, she donated a large sum of money for the construction of a building and for a food fund to support 200 impoverished children. A dedicatory inscription originally attached to the building reveals that Caelia’s welfare grants were somewhat unusual in that they were more generous to girls than was typical of the time.
