Claudia Tisamenis

Claudia Tisamenis was a Greek Aristocratic woman that lived in the 2nd century in the Roman Empire

Ancestry and Family

Tisamenis was of Athenian descent. Her ancestry can be traceable to the Athenian noble woman Elpinice (a half sister of statesman Cimon and daughter of politician Miltiades the Younger). She had an ancestor four generations removed from her called Polycharmus. Polycharmus from 9/8 BC-22/23, could have served as an Archon of Athens. Her family bears the Roman family name, Claudius. There is a possibility that a paternal ancestor of hers, received Roman citizenship, from an unknown member of the Claudius gens.

Tisamenis was born to a distinguished and very rich family of consular rank. She was the daughter of Roman Senator Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes and the wealthy heiress Vibullia Alcia Agrippina. Tisamenis had two brothers: the prominent Greek Sophist Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes and Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodianus. Her maternal grandparents were Claudia Alcia and Lucius Vibullius Rufus, while her paternal grandfather was Hipparchus and his unnamed wife.