Marcia Servilia
Marcia Servilia Sorana or commonly known as Servilia (40s-66) was the daughter of Roman Senator Quintus Marcius Barea Soranus. Servilia was born of the gens Marcius.
Her paternal grandfather, Quintus Marcius Barea, was Suffect Consul in 26 and was twice Proconsul of the Africa Province. Barea's wife may have been from the gens Servilius. Servilia's paternal uncle Quintus Marcius Barea Sura, was a friend to the future Roman Emperor Vespasian. A paternal cousin was Marcia Furnilla (second wife of the future Roman Emperor Titus).
Servilia had a loving relationship with her father. She had married the Roman Senator Annius Pollio, who was accused of treason first in 37, and then again in 65 and exiled on Emperor Nero's orders.
Tacitus describes Servilia as ‘young and imprudent’. The historian states that Servilia was inconsolable, about her husband and was worried about her elderly father, who committed suicide. In 66, Servilia and Annius Pollio were executed on Nero’s orders on the charge of consulting sorcerers ostensibly to find out her father's fate.
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