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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.
Brutus, also called Brute of Troy, is a mythical British king. He is described as a legendary descendant of the Trojan hero Aeneas , known in medieval British legend as the eponymous founder and first king of Britain .
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]
Through her mother, she was the younger half-sister of Marcus Junius Brutus, [1] she also had two older sisters Junia Prima and Junia Secunda as well as an older brother named Marcus Junius Silanus. Marriage and later life
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.
Junia Secunda was daughter of Servilia (who was the half-sister of Cato the Younger and mistress of Julius Caesar) and Decimus Junius Silanus. She was the half-sister of Marcus Junius Brutus through her mother and full sister of Marcus Junius Silanus, Junia Prima and Junia Tertia. [1] [2]
Porcia is an oil-on-panel painting of Brutus' wife Porcia painted c. 1490–1495 by the Italian artist Fra Bartolomeo, now in the Uffizi in Florence. It forms a pair with Minerva, now in the Louvre. [1] The painting left the Uffizi during the First World War to be stored safely elsewhere.
Marcus Junius Brutus (/ ˈ b r uː t ə s /; Latin: [ˈmaːrkʊs juːniʊs ˈbruːtʊs]; c. 85 BC – 23 October 42 BC) was a Roman politician, orator, [2] and the most famous of the assassins of Julius Caesar. After being adopted by a relative, he used the name Quintus Servilius Caepio Brutus, which was retained as his legal