metaphysikal:Lucretia (died c. 510 BC) was a semi-legendary figure in the history of the Roman Repub
metaphysikal:Lucretia (died c. 510 BC) was a semi-legendary figure in the history of the Roman Republic. According to the story, told mainly by 2 turn-of-the-millennium historians, the Roman Livy and the Greek historian Dionysius, her rape by the Etruscan king’s son and consequent suicide were the immediate cause of the revolution that overthrew the monarchy and established the Roman Republic. The incident kindled the flames of dissatisfaction over the tyrannical methods of the last king of Rome, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus. As a result, the prominent families instituted a republic, drove the extensive Tarquin family from Rome, and successfully defended the republic against attempted Etruscan and Latin intervention. The rape has been a major theme in European art and literature. The beginning of the Republic is marked by the first appearance of the 2 consuls elected on a yearly basis. The Romans recorded events by consular year, keeping an official list in various forms called the fasti, used by Roman historians. The list and its events are authentic as far as can be known although debatable problems with many parts of it do exist. This list confirms that there was a Roman Republic, that it began at the beginning of the fasti, and that it supplanted a monarchy. One of the first 2 consuls is Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, husband of Lucretia. Numerous sources on the beginning of the republic reiterate these basic events. -- source link