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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 356496" data-attributes="member: 1645">Chapter XII -- The Sour Taste of Victory (continued)About thirty-seven years of age, Brutus was a handsome and erudite senator with much influence among his peers as the nephew of Cato the Younger and also because of his natural talents and a winning personality.  His mother was Servilia, Cato's sister.  Years before, Servilia had fallen in love with Julius Caesar when both were only teenagers, she being a young widow at the time.  Their relationship ended when she remarried, but before long it was apparent she was pregnant.  Many classical authors were to write that when Marcus was born Caesar felt sure the boy was his.This is becoming a soap opera.  There's a certain Oedipal allure to the thought that Brutus was Caesar's son... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />While Caesar was only fifteen when Brutus was born it's not impossible that they were father and son.  Romans started their sex lives early -- females could legally marry at twelve, while males officially came of age in their fifteenth year.So Caesar's with Servilia when he's 14-15, yet she's already a young widow?  Wild.  And we pretend teens are asexual children until 18...Whatever the biological facts, for the rest of his days Caesar treated Brutus like a son.Unrequited paternal love?</blockquote>

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