According to modern sources, Lucretia's narrative is considered a part of Roman mythohistory. However, specific details are debatable and vary depending on the writer. The evidence points to the historical existence of a woman named Lucretia and an event that played a critical part in the downfall of the monarchy. Secondary sources on the establishment of the republic reiterate the basic events of Lucretia's story, though accounts vary slightly between historians. Information regarding Lucretia, her rape and suicide, and the consequence of this being the start of the Roman Republic, come from the accounts of Roman historian Livy and Greco-Roman historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus approximately 500 years later. There are no contemporary sources of Lucretia and the event. As a result, the prominent families instituted a republic, drove the extensive royal family of Tarquin from Rome, and successfully defended the republic against attempted Etruscan and Latin intervention.

The incident kindled the flames of dissatisfaction over the tyrannical methods of Tarquin's father, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the last king of Rome. 510 BC), anglicized as Lucrece, was a noblewoman in ancient Rome, whose rape by Sextus Tarquinius (Tarquin) and subsequent suicide precipitated a rebellion that overthrew the Roman monarchy and led to the transition of Roman government from a kingdom to a republic. Barcelona: Llotja de Mar.Īccording to Roman tradition, Lucretia ( /luːˈkriːʃə/ loo-KREE-shə, Classical Latin: died c. Dead Lucrecia (1804), by Catalan sculptor Damià Campeny.

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