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  2. Porcia (wife of Brutus) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Porcia gens - Wikipedia

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    Porcius M. f. M. n. Cato, the second son of Cato the Younger, was sent to his father's friend, Munatius, in Bruttium, when his father fled Rome with Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus during the Civil War. [38] Porcia M. f. M. n., the second daughter of Cato the Younger, remained with her mother at Rome when her father fled with Pompeius during the Civil ...

  4. Porcia (Fra Bartolomeo) - Wikipedia

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    From a niche appears Porcia, the daughter of Cato the Younger. She can be recognized by the burning coals at her feet, because she killed herself by swallowing hot coals after the defeat of her husband, Marcus Junius Brutus, at the Battle of Philippi on 42 BC. The painting was meant to be part of a series dedicated to illustrious women, perhaps ...

  5. Marcus Porcius Cato (father of Cato the Younger) - Wikipedia

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    Cato was the son of Marcus Porcius Cato Salonianus, the son of Cato the Elder by his second wife, Salonia. Cato Salonianus was born in 154 BC, and lived to obtain the praetorship, but then died in office, leaving two sons, Marcus and Lucius. When Marcus was grown, he married Livia, daughter of Marcus Livius Drusus, consul in 112 BC

  6. Portia (The Merchant of Venice) - Wikipedia

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    Portia is a female protagonist in The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare. In creating her character, Shakespeare drew from the historical figure of Porcia [ 1 ] — the daughter of Cato the Younger — as well as several parts of the Bible .

  7. Julius Caesar (miniseries) - Wikipedia

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    Back in Rome, Sulla dies of a heart attack and Caesar resumes his political career. While he was gone Cornelia falls ill and Julia befriends Portia, daughter of Caesar's rival Marcus Porcius Cato, her brother Marcus and their cousin Brutus. When Cornelia dies from her illness, Caesar swears at her funeral that he will make Rome a better place.

  8. Servilia (mother of Brutus) - Wikipedia

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    When her son – Marcus Junius Brutus – divorced his wife Claudia to marry Cato's daughter Porcia in 45, she disapproved, having been instrumental in arranging the match and also disagreeing with the anti-Caesarian stance taken by her half-brother Cato. [29] Servilia may also have been jealous of the affection that Brutus showed his new bride ...

  9. Brutus and Portia - Wikipedia

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    Brutus and Portia is a painting in tempera on panel of c. 1486–1490 by Ercole de' Roberti in the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, which acquired it in 1986. It shows Caesar's assassin Marcus Junius Brutus and his wife Porcia .