Servilia Caepionis
Servilia Caepionis (* ~ 100 BC; † after 42 BC) was a Roman patrician in the 1st century BC. BC, who is best known as the mother of Marcus Iunius Brutus , one of the later murderers of Gaius Iulius Caesar .
Servilia was the daughter of Quintus Servilius Caepio and Livia ; through her mother she was also a half-sister of Cato the younger .
Servilia grew up around 98 BC after the sensational divorce of her parents. In the house of Marcus Livius Drusus , a brother of her mother. She married Marcus Iunius Brutus , who lived in 77 BC. Died in the revolt of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus . From this marriage Servilia had only one child, Marcus Iunius Brutus. In her second marriage she was with Decimus Junius Silanus , the consul from 62 BC. Chr., Married, from whom she had three daughters. After the death of the second man in 60 BC She remained unmarried.
Servilia was one of Caesar's lovers and arguably the one he cherished the most. Unlike other Roman women , she didn't have the patience to wait until he called her. This audacity made the affair public: During a Senate meeting at which Caesar was arguing with Servilia's half-brother Cato about the treatment of the Catiline conspiracy , Servilia sent him a love letter. Cato noticed this and accused Caesar of having received a message from the conspirators. Caesar gave him the letter, and Cato was annoyed to find that it was a love letter from his sister.
Four years later, during his first consulate , Caesar gave Servilia a pearl worth six million sesterces. After his victory in the civil war , he gave orders to Brutus, who had stood on Pompey 's side in order to spare her. He bought Servilia property at bargain prices; as rumors claim, he did so because Servilia brought her daughter Junia Tertia to him.
Brutus' divorce and second marriage to Cato's daughter Porcia temporarily estranged mother and son. After Caesar's assassination, Servilia was an important figure in the Republican faction who presided over a number of meetings with like-minded people. After the death of their son Brutus in 42 BC. In BC Titus Pomponius Atticus took care of Servilia.
family tree
literature
- Friedrich Münzer : Servilia 101. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II A, 2, Stuttgart 1923, Sp. 1817-1821.
- Susan Treggiari: Servilia and her Family. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2019, ISBN 978-0-19-882934-8 .
Remarks
- ↑ a b Suetonius , Caesar 50, 2 .
- ↑ Plutarch , Cato minor 24 ; Brutus 5, 3 .
- ↑ Plutarch: Brutus 5.1.
- ↑ Cicero , Epistulae ad Atticum 15, 11, 1.
- ↑ Cornelius Nepos , Atticus 11 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Servilia Caepionis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman patrician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century BC BC or 1st century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 42 BC Chr. |