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Servilia was a patrician who could trace her line back to Gaius Servilius Ahala, [4] and was the eldest child [citation needed] of Livia and Quintus Servilius Caepio.Her parents had two other children, a younger Servilia and a Gnaeus Servilius Caepio; her father also likely had another son named Quintus Servilius Caepio from an earlier marriage. [8]
Porcia (c. 73 BC – June 43 BC), [2] [3] occasionally spelled Portia, especially in 18th-century English literature, [4] was a Roman woman who lived in the 1st century BC. She was the daughter of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (Cato the Younger) and his first wife Atilia.
The mother died in childbirth. The boy, named Brutus, later accidentally killed his father with an arrow and was banished from Italy. After wandering among the islands of the Tyrrhenian Sea and through Gaul , where he founded the city of Tours , Brutus eventually came to Britain, named it after himself, and filled it with his descendants.
Complete tapestry of "Brutus' expedition to Aquitaine", with Innogen on the left. Innogen first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (c. 1136).She was the eldest daughter of the Greek king Pandrasus, and was given in marriage to Brutus of Troy after he united the enslaved Trojans in Greece and defeated Pandrasus to gain their freedom.
Servilia, born before 100 BC, married Marcus Junius Brutus, and was the mother of Brutus, the tyrannicide. She was the mistress of Caesar, for which reason Caesar was rumoured to be Brutus' father. [i] [2] Servilia Minor, born circa 99 BC, the second wife of Lucius Licinius Lucullus, consul in 74 BC. [3] [4]
Cornelia, Brutus' wife, and the central character of the first three books of the series. Corineus, Brutus' captain. Coel, a Llangarlian mystic and warrior; also temporary lover of Cornelia. Loth, a strange, enigmatic Llangarlian man with a distorted antler-shaped head. Aerne, Gormagog of Llangarlia. Mag, Mother Goddess of the Waters of Llangarlia.
Lavinia, the only child of the king and "ripe for marriage", had been courted by many men who hoped to become the king of Latium. [2] Turnus, ruler of the Rutuli, was the most likely of the suitors, having the favor of Queen Amata. [3]
After being exiled from Italy, Brutus of Troy arrives in Greece, discovers these Trojans, and rises to become their leader. [1] Assaracus – a Greek noble who owns three castles, and is of Trojan descent through his mother's side – sides with the Trojans after Pandrasus allows Assaracus' fully Greek half brother to take these castles.