Servilia and her Family

Abstract

Servilia is often cited as one of the most influential women of the late Roman Republic. Though she was a high-born patrician, her grandfather died disgraced and her controversial father was killed before he could stand for the consulship. She married twice, but both husbands, Marcus Iunius Brutus and Decimus Iunius Silanus, were mediocre. Her position in society and (it may be conjectured) her contacts, personality, ability, and charm gave her influence. It is likely that she masterminded the distinguished marriages of her one son, Brutus, and her three daughters. During her second marriage she entered on an affair with C. Iulius Caesar, which probably lasted for the rest of his life, a fact which also suggests her charm and her exceptional intelligence. The patchiness of the sources means that a full biography is impossible, though in suggesting connexions between the evidence and the possibilities open to women of similar status this volume aims to reconstruct her life and position as a member of the senatorial nobility and within her extended and nuclear family. The best attested period of Servilia’s life, for which the chief source is Cicero’s letters, follows the murder of Caesar by her son and her son-in-law, Cassius, who were leaders among the crowd of conspirators in the Senate-house on the Ides of March 44 BC. We find her working to protect the assassins’ interests and defending her grandchildren (by the Caesarian Lepidus) when he was a public enemy and his property threatened with confiscation.

Roma Hukuku Perspekti̇fi̇nden Xv. Yüzyil Polonya’sinda Boşanma

“…İsa'ya tabi olduğu gibi, kadınlar da her konuda kocalarına tabi olmalıdır' (Efesliler 5. [22][23][24]. 77 Bu pasaj, kadınların kocalarına itaat etmeleri gerektiğini ifade etse de, sonraki pasaj bir kocanın evin reisi olarak konumunu kötüye kullanmaması gerektiğini söyleyerek: 'Ey kocalar, Hz.…”

“…22 Manus'lu 23 evliliklere cum manu, manus olmadan yapılan evliliklere ise sine manu adı verilmektedir. 24 M.Ö.III. ve II.…”

“…26 18 Kadın, conferratio, coemptio ve usus olmak üzere üç ayrı şekilde manus altına girmektedir. 27 Bu tür evliliklerin üçü de, kadının kendi ailesinden kocasının ailesine aktarıldığı, yani kocasının yetkisi altına girdiği 'manus'u içermektedir. 28 Confarreatio, Roma'nın ilk dönemlerine ait bir uygulamadır.…”

Reading Catullus 113 as the Vilification of Pompey's Ex-Wife Mucia

“… 72 I am cognizant of the warning that the very word (‘cuckold’) is an anachronism: Treggiari (1991) 311–12 and (2019) 108–9, 112, 292–97. Cf.…”

“… 78 Such an insinuation would have been daring – but not beyond Catullan temerity. It has been argued, drawing upon Cicero's surviving speeches, that allegations of bastardy were seemingly beyond the pale: Syme (1960) 323–6; (1980) 424 [= (1984) 1238]; (1986) 18, followed by Edwards (1993) 49–50 (contrasting Attic and Ciceronian oratory); Treggiari (2019) 112–13. Evidence suggests the contrary; such insinuations were not beneath late republican aspersion.…”