In this story there are 4 main characters Clarissa, Marcellus, Arelia and Calliope.
The Marcelli were a prominent Patrician family in Rome, tracing their Lineage to the first Kings of Rome. Marcellus, the leader of the family and a somewhat prominent politician of the time had died when his son, Marcullus the younger was only 4, and his daughter, Arelia, was only 3. The mother of Marcellus and Arelia was Clarissa. Clarissa was also from an old patrician family but one that had severely weakened since the reign of Octavian. Clarissa married Marcellus when she was only 14 in a desperate bid of her father’s to begin forging alliances with other powerful families. Clarissa and her sister were both very beautiful, they both had ginger hair and good figures. Clarissa was the oldest by 3 years and the more beautiful of the two, she was tall for a woman at that time at 5’4 with very fair skin and beautiful eyes (For a better visual think of Polly Walker in the show Rome, but imagine her with fairer skin and bright blue eyes. Clarissa is a more beautiful version of her with more youthfullness and larger breasts, whereas Calliope is on par with the character but just a little taller.) she also had a large bossom that was upright and high on her chest, her sister Calliope looked similar but was shorter with less of a curvy figure and her eyes weren’t as electric as her sister’s.