Porcia (wife of Brutus)

For the sister of Cato the Younger, see Portia (sister of Cato the Younger).
Porcia
Painting by Elisabetta Sirani
Bornc. 73 BC
DiedJune 43 BC (aged 29–30)
Spouse(s)Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus
Marcus Junius Brutus
Children2 (by Bibulus)[1]
Parents

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. She is best known for being the second wife of Marcus Junius Brutus, the most famous of Julius Caesar's assassins, and appears primarily in the letters of Cicero.[5]

  1. ^ Tarrant, R. J. (1987). Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. Vol. 91. Harvard University Press. p. 198. ISBN 978-0674379398.
  2. ^ "Cicero ad Brutum 1.9". www.uvm.edu.
  3. ^ Plutarch, Marcus Brutus, 53.5.
  4. ^ Spelled Portia in Lempriere's Classical Dictionary (19th century)
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