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Volumnia Cytheris

Volumnia Cytheris

Volumnia Cytheris (fl. 1st-century BC) was an ancient Roman actress and mimae dancer. She is foremost known as the mistress of several famous Romans.

Possibly born around 70 B.C., she was originally a slave of Publius Volumnius Eutrapelius but later became a freedwoman. On stage, she was normally referred to only as Cytheris. The name derived from "Cythera" a nickname for Aphrodite. She had relationships with Brutus and Mark Antony, which attracted a lot of attention in contemporary ancient Rome. She is mentioned as the companion of her aristocratic lovers in social occasions when the presence of a courtesan was otherwise not common, and considered shocking.

Cicero's letters recount how embarrassed he was to go to a party that she also attended, and how offensive it was for Mark Antony to give her a place of dignity in his litter:

"The tribune of the people was borne along in a chariot, lictors crowned with laurel preceded him; among whom, on an open litter, was carried an actress; whom honourable men, citizens of the different municipalities, coming out from their towns under compulsion to meet him, saluted not by the name by which she was well known on the stage, but by that of Volumnia. A car followed full of pimps; then a lot of debauched companions; and then his mother, utterly neglected, followed the mistress of her profligate son, as if she had been her daughter-in-law. O the disastrous fecundity of that miserable woman! With the marks of such wickedness as this did that fellow stamp every municipality, and prefecture, and colony, and, in short, the whole of Italy."

Later, Cicero's wife asked Cytheris to help mend the relationship between her husband and Cytheris' lover Mark Antony, so that he could return from exile in Brundisium.

Her rejection of Cornelius Gallus reportedly provided the theme for Virgil's tenth Eclogue. Gallus refers to her in his work under the name Lycoris, which alludes to one of the names "Lycoreus" the god Apollo, Greek god of music.

She is one of few free influential Roman courtesans mentioned by her contemporaries, others being Praecia and Chelidon. Cytheris' fate is unknown and she is not mentioned in any sources after a certain point.

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Marcus Junius Brutus

Marcus Junius Brutus

マルクス・ユニウス・ブルトゥスラテン語: Marcus Junius Brutus, 紀元前85年 - 紀元前42年10月23日)は、共和政ローマ末期の政務官。

独裁官ガイウス・ユリウス・カエサルの暗殺に関わった人物の1人で、現代においてはカエサル暗殺を象徴する人物として記憶されている。16世紀末のイングランドでシェイクスピアが著した戯曲『ジュリアス・シーザー』の主人公としても有名であり、英語読みのブルータスの名がよく知られる。

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Volumnia Cytheris

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Mark Antony

Mark Antony

マルクス・アントニウス(ラテン語: Marcus Antonius、紀元前83年1月14日 - 紀元前30年8月1日)は、共和政ローマの政務官。第二回三頭政治の一頭として権力を握ったが、その後はガイウス・ユリウス・カエサルの姪の息子オクタウィアヌス(後の初代ローマ皇帝アウグストゥス)に敗北した。ウィリアム・シェイクスピアの戯曲『アントニーとクレオパトラ』でも知られている。

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Volumnia Cytheris

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Gaius Cornelius Gallus

Gaius Cornelius Gallus
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