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Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis ("of Utica"; / ˈ k eɪ t oʊ /, KAY-toe; 95 BC – April 46 BC), also known as Cato the Younger (Latin: Cato Minor), was an influential conservative Roman senator during the late Republic.
The 16th-century French writer and philosopher Michel de Montaigne was fascinated by the example of Cato, the incident being mentioned in multiple of his Essais, above all in Du Jeune Caton in Book I. [6] Whether the example of Cato was a potential ethical model or a simply unattainable standard troubled him in particular, Cato proving to be Montaigne's favoured role-model in the earlier ...
Cato, a Tragedy is a play written by Joseph Addison in 1712 and first performed on 14 April 1713. It is based on the events of the last days of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (better known as Cato the Younger) (95–46 BC), a Stoic whose deeds, rhetoric and resistance to the tyranny of Julius Caesar made him an icon of republicanism, virtue, and liberty.
William Constable and his sister Winifred represented in the roles of Marcus Porcius Cato and his wife Marcia, painted in Rome by Anton von Maron (1733-1808). Marcia (also Marzia or Martia; born c. 80 BC) was the second wife of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (Cato the Younger) and the daughter of Lucius Marcius Philippus.
Marcus Porcius Cato (c. 73-42 BC), son of Cato the Younger by his first marriage to Atilia, was a Roman soldier and in his earlier years spent some time in politics with his father. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Although he never achieved greatness, he was admired by close friends and relatives, and also served his father most loyally and shared his ideals.
She was the mother of Cato the Younger, and grandmother of Marcus Junius Brutus, through her oldest daughter Servilia. Life and family Livia's father died in 108 BC ...
Porcius M. f. M. n. Cato, the second son of Cato the Younger, was sent to his father's friend, Munatius, in Bruttium, when his father fled Rome with Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus during the Civil War. [38] Porcia M. f. M. n., the second daughter of Cato the Younger, remained with her mother at Rome when her father fled with Pompeius during the Civil ...
He was eighty years old when his younger son was born, and since both sons bore the praenomen Marcus, they later came to be referred to as Cato Licinianus and Cato Salonianus, after their mothers. [1] [2] [3] Licinianus died soon after the birth of his younger brother, and Cato the Elder died in 149, when Salonianus was five years old.