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Servilia and her Family by Susan Treggiari (Hardcover, 2019)

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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 in 44 BC.

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Servilia is often cited as one of the most influential women of the late Roman Republic, linked both to Caesar and, by familial ties, to two of his eventual assassins. The patchiness of the sources means that a full biography is impossible, but this exploration of the role Servilia played in the turbulent years of the late Republic reveals much about the ways in which Romans of both sexes exerted influence and sought to control outcomes, as well as about the place of women in high society.