Servilia Caepionis (b. c.107 BC - d. after 42 BC) is one of the few Roman women cited by ancient sources, mainly due to her being the mistress of Julius Caesar, mother of his assassin Marcus Junius Brutus, and half-sister of Cato the Younger. Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 150s BC 140s BC 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC - 100s BC - 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC Years: 112 BC 111 BC 110 BC 109 BC 108 BC - 107 BC - 106 BC 105 BC... Events October 3 - First Battle of Philippi: The Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesars assassins Marcus Junius Brutus and Cassius. ... Nickname: The Eternal City Motto: SPQR: Senatus PopulusQue Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 21 April 753 BC  - Mayor Walter Veltroni Area    - City 1285 km²  (580 sq mi)  - Urban... Gaius Julius Caesar [1] (Latin pronunciation ; English pronunciation ; July 12 or July 13, 100 BC or 102 BC – March 15, 44 BC), was a Roman military and political leader and one of the most influential men in classical antiquity. ... Art work over an ancient marble bust of Marcus Brutus Marcus Junius Brutus (85 BC – 42 BC), or Quintus Servilius Caepio Brutus, was a Roman senator of the late Roman Republic. ... Marcus Porcius Catō UticÄ“nsis (95 BC–46 BC), known as Cato the Younger (Cato Minor) to distinguish him from his great-grandfather Cato the Elder, was a politician and statesman in the late Roman Republic, and a follower of the Stoic philosophy. ...

Life

Birth

She was a patrician, daughter of Livia Drusa (who was mother to Servilia's half-brother Marcus Porcius Cato, the Younger through a later marriage) and Quintus Servilius Caepio the Younger. Servilia was brought up in the house of the tribune Marcus Livius Drusus, a maternal uncle, after her parents' scandalous divorce. He, however, died when she was 9. This article is about the social and political class in ancient Rome. ... Marcus Porcius Catō Uticēnsis (95 BC–46 BC), known as Cato the Younger (Cato Minor) to distinguish him from his great-grandfather Cato the Elder, was a politician and statesman in the late Roman Republic, and a follower of the Stoic philosophy. ... Quintus Servilius Caepio the Younger was a Roman soldier and statesman. ... The younger Marcus Livius Drusus, son of Marcus Livius Drusus, was tribune of the plebeians in 91 BC. In the manner of Gaius Gracchus, he set out with comprehensive plans, but his aim was to strengthen senatorial rule. ...

Marriages and issue

• Marcus Junius Brutus (tribune of the plebs in 83 BC, founder of the colony in Capua, killed by Pompey after the surrender of Mutina in 77 BC).

Issue:

• Marcus Junius Brutus, one of Julius Caesar's assassins.

• Decimus Junius Silanus, the consul of 62 BC

Issue:

• Junia Prima
• Junia Secunda

• married Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, the future triumvir of the Second Triumvirate.

• Junia Tertia

• married Gaius Cassius, another prominent assassin of Julius Caesar.

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Caesar's mistress

In 63BC she became the mistress of Julius Caesar, and remained so until his death. In the words of Plutarch's, Life of Cato the Younger, 24: Gaius Julius Caesar [1] (Latin pronunciation ; English pronunciation ; July 12 or July 13, 100 BC or 102 BC – March 15, 44 BC), was a Roman military and political leader and one of the most influential men in classical antiquity. ... Wikisource has original text related to this article: Plutarch in Greek Plutarchs Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. ...

when Caesar was eagerly engaged in a great struggle with [Servilia's half-brother] Cato and the attention of the senate was fixed upon the two men, a little note was brought in from outside to Caesar. Cato tried to fix suspicion upon the matter and alleged that it had something to do with the conspiracy, and bade him read the writing aloud. Then Caesar handed the note to Cato, who stood near him. But when Cato had read the note, which was an unchaste letter from Servilia to Caesar, with whom she was passionately and guiltily in love, he threw it to Caesar, saying, "Take it, thou sot," and then resumed his speech.

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But beyond all others Caesar loved Servilia, the mother of Marcus Brutus, for whom in his first consulship [in 59] he bought a pearl costing six million sesterces. During the civil war, too, besides other presents, he knocked down some fine estates to her in a state auction at a nominal price, and when some expressed their surprise at the low figure, Cicero wittily remarked: "It's a better bargain than you think, for there is a third off [in Latin, Tertia - a pun on her daughter Junia Tertia ]." And in fact it was thought that Servilia was prostituting her own daughter Tertia to Caesar.

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Assassination of Caesar

After the assassination of Caesar by her son Brutus (and her son-in-law Cassius), the conspirators met at Servilia's house. Despite this, she herself escaped the purges of the second triumvirate unscathed. After Brutus's death she lived the rest out the remainder of her life in relative comfort and affluence under the care of Cicero's friend Titus Pomponius Atticus. Her son's ashes were sent to her from Philippi and she died naturally, as did her youngest daughter Junia Tertia. The Second Triumvirate is the name historians give to the official political alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (Octavian, later Caesar Augustus), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony formed on 26 November 43 BC. There have been two 5-year terms, covering the period 43 BC – 33 BC. Unlike the... Titus Pomponius Atticus (110 BC/109 BC – 32 BC). ... Map of Greece showing Philippi Philippi (in Ancient Greek / Philippoi) was a city in eastern Macedonia, founded by Philip II in 356 BC and abandoned in the 14th century after the Ottoman conquest. ... Junia Tertia, or Tertulla, (c. ...

Family tree

• (1)=1st husband/wife
• (2)=2nd husband/wife
• x=assassin of Caesar

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In popular culture

Lindsay Duncan as Servilia in the TV series Rome.

• A fictionalised Servilia appeared in the 2005 television series Rome, played by Lindsay Duncan.
• An even more fictionalised Servilia makes an appearance in the 2005 six-part mini series Empire, played by Trudie Styler.
• Servilia appears in Colleen McCullough's novel Caesar's Women, a part of her Masters of Rome Series.^[1]

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Sources

• Suetonius, Julius Caesar 50
• Plutarch, Cato the Younger, Brutus
• Appian, Civil Wars
• Cicero, Letters F 12.7, A 14.21, A 15.11, A 15.12
• Cornelius Nepos, Atticus

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References

1. ^ McCullough, Colleen (1997-02-01). Caesar's Women. Avon. ISBN 978-0380710843. 

External links

• The interesting family connections of Servilia Caepionis