Concept
Porcia (wife of Brutus)
Overview
Portia (c. 73 BC – June 43 BC), occasionally spelled Porcia, especially in 18th-century English literature, 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.
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Cato the philosopher was brother to Servilia, the mother of Brutus, and he it was whom of all the Romans his nephew most admired and studied to imitate, and he afterwards married his daughter Porcia. Of all the sects of the Greek philosophers, though there was none of which he had not been a hearer and in which he had not made some proficiency, yet he chiefly esteemed the Platonists; and, not much approving of the…
Plutarch, Plutarch
States what Porcia is; the author is tied to Porcia in the knowledge graph.
Once seen, the portrait ever after lives an old and dear acquaintance of the reader's inner man. Portia has strength enough to do and suffer for others, but very little for herself. As the daughter of Cato and the wife of Brutus, she has set in her eye a pattern of how she ought to think and act, being "so father'd and so husbanded"; but still her head floats merged over the ears in her heart; and it is only when…
William Shakespeare, The New Hudson Shakespeare
Close in meaning to Porcia; the term itself is not named.
Porcia's dream we recited in a sort of rivalry, and divided between us the mid dialogue of despair between Satan and Adramelech, who have been cast into the Red Sea. The first part, as the strongest, had been assigned to me, and the second, as a little more pathetic, was undertaken by my sister.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Autobiography of Goethe Truth and Poetry
Opens on Porcia; names Porcia.
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Place in the tradition
Part of Ancient Roman philosophy.