Servilia (wife of Lucullus)

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Servilia, also known as Servilia Minor or Servilia the Younger was the second wife of Lucullus.

Biography

Early life

There is some debate as to who her father was. Older authors who follow

Gnaeus Servilius Caepio, thus a niece of Cato; but this is not universally accepted, Judith P. Hallett has argued that is implausible that the younger Caepio (who was born in 98 BC) would have married so young and sired a daughter fast enough that she would be old enough to marry Lucullus in 66 BC.[2]

The historian

Quintus Lutatius Catulus, but that woman was more likely her aunt Servilia.[3]

Marriage

Lucullus married her on his return from the Third Mithridatic War around 66 BC, after divorcing his first wife Claudia.[4] Servilia bore him a son whose name is uncertain. She was unfaithful to her husband with his enemy Gaius Memmius.[5] Lucullus, after putting up with her conduct for some time out of regard to Cato the Younger at length divorced her. On the outbreak of the civil war in 49 BC, she accompanied Cato, with her child, to Sicily, and thence to the Roman province Asia. Cato left her behind in Rhodes, while he went to join Pompey.

Family

Cultural depictions

In Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series Servilia is called "Servililla" or just "Lilla" and is depicted as having been married to her cousin Drusus before marrying Lucullus, it is stated that Drusus divorced her for infidelity.[6]

See also

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

Citations

  1. ^ Ancient society. Vol. 15–18. Université catholique de Louvain: Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven. 1984. p. 98.
  2. ISBN 9781400855322
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  3. ISBN 9780199590056
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  4. ISBN 9780190869038
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  5. ISBN 9780192564641
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  6. ISBN 9781781859391
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Bibliography

  • Plutarch, "The Life of Lucullus", 38; "The Life of Cato the Younger", 24, 54.
  • Wilhelm Drumann, Geschichte Roms, vol. iv, p. 174.
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