It has been used to explore a wide range of political and moral ideas, including the ethical ramifications of both rape and suicide. Prince Tarquin is from the royal family of a debauched and decadent Rome. Since antiquity, the story has been reworked and reinterpreted many times, in scholarship, political thought and philosophy, and literature and arts. He is not surprised to hear she is the only wife to remain faithful to her soldier husband. Her body was paraded in the Roman Forum by the king's nephew. In 509 BC, Sextus Tarquinius, son of the king of Rome, raped Lucretia (Lucrece), wife of Collatinus, one of the king's aristocratic retainers. Although the episode is set in the 6th century bce, our most extensive early ancient accounts were written in the 1st centuries bce and ce by Livy, Ovid, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Augustan authors for whom Lucretia’s fate was a distant legend. 37, Act II: Last night Tarquinius ravished me (Lucretia, Collatinus) is a popular song by The English Opera Group Orchestra. The Romans are laying siege to Ardea, a Volscian city 20 miles south of Rome.
This is the core of one of Rome’s more powerful and enduring foundation legends. The avengers of Lucretia’s rape are thus champions of liberty, freeing Rome from tyranny. Her death and the vengeance it inspired marked a turning point in Roman history in 509 bce, when Lucius Junius Brutus led the expulsion from Rome of the tyrannical Tarquinii, putting an end to monarchical rule, and founding the Roman republic Brutus and Lucretia’s father Collatinus were elected the first pair of consuls. Lucretia was a legendary heroine of ancient Rome, the quintessence of virtue, the beautiful wife of the nobleman Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus.In a lull in the. Lucretia, the virtuous wife of Collatinus, was raped by a royal prince, Sextus Tarquinius, and killed herself after reporting the crime to her father and husband.
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