What is "servilia"

Servilia (b.c. 104 BC, d. after 42 BC) was the mistress of Julius Caesar, mother of one of Caesar's assassins, Brutus, mother-in-law of another assassin, Cassius, and half-sister of Cato the Younger.

Servilia may refer to:

Ancient Roman women, most from the gens Servilia, the most notable figures including

• Servilia (2nd century BC), wife of Q. Lutatius Catulus
• Servilia (107-42 BC), daughter of Q. Servilius Caepio, mistress of C. Julius Caesar and mother of his assassin, M. Junius Brutus
• Servilia, younger full-sister of the above, second wife of the conqueror L. Licinius Lucullus
• Marcia Servilia Sorana (40-66), daughter of Q. Marcius Barea Soranus

Other uses

• Servilia (opera), 1901 work by Russian composer Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
• Servilia of the Junii, a fictionalized depiction of Servilia Caepionis in the Rome 2005-2007 TV series

Servilia was the wife of Quintus Lutatius Catulus, the consul during 102 BC. Their daughter Lutatia married the orator Quintus Hortensius, for which reason Cicero calls Servilia Hortensius's "socrus" or mother-in-law

Servilia, also known as Servilia Minor or Servilia the Younger, was the younger full sister of Servilia Major and second wife of Lucullus. Lucullus married her on his return from the Third Mithridatic War, after divorcing his first wife Clodia. Servilia bore him a son, but like her sister, she was faithless to her husband. Lucullus, after putting up with her conduct for some time out of regard to M. Cato Uticensis, her half-brother, at length divorced her.

On the outbreak of the civil war in 49 BC, she accompanied Cato, with her child, to Sicily, and from thence to the Roman province Asia. Cato left her behind in Rhodes, while he went to join Pompey.

Servilia (, Serviliya, the name of a main character), is an opera in five acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The work was completed in 1901, and was first performed in 1902 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The composer wrote the libretto, which is based on the drama by Lev Alexandrovich Mey. The story is set in Ancient Rome during Nero's reign.

The gens Servilia was a patrician family at Rome. The gens was celebrated during the early ages of the Republic, and the names of few gentes appear more frequently at this period in the consular Fasti. It continued to produce men of influence in the state down to the latest times of the Republic, and even in the imperial period. The first member of the gens who obtained the consulship was Publius Servilius Priscus Structus in 495 BC, and the last of the name who appears in the consular Fasti is Quintus Servilius Silanus, in AD 189, thus occupying a prominent position in the Roman state for nearly seven hundred years.

Like other Roman gentes, the Servilii of course had their own sacra; and they are said to have worshipped a triens, or copper coin, which is reported to have increased or diminished in size at various times, thus indicating the increase or diminution of the honors of the gens. Although the Servilii were originally patricians, in the later Republic there were also plebeian Servilii.