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The story of Lucretia was a popular moral tale in the later Middle Ages. Lucretia appears to Dante in the section of Limbo, reserved for the nobles of Rome and other "virtuous pagans", in Canto IV of the Inferno. Christine de Pizan used Lucretia, just as St. Augustine of Hippo did, in her City of Ladies, defending a woman's sanctity.
The gens Lucretia was a prominent family of the Roman Republic. Originally patrician , the gens later included a number of plebeian families. The Lucretii were one of the most ancient gentes, and the second wife of Numa Pompilius , the second King of Rome , was named Lucretia.
Tarquin and Lucretia by Titian. The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Roman noblewoman Lucretia.In his previous narrative poem, Venus and Adonis (1593), Shakespeare had included a dedicatory letter to his patron, the Earl of Southampton, in which he promised to compose a "graver labour".
Most commonly, art depicted either the moment of the rape, or Lucretia is shown alone at the moment of her suicide. [6] In this near life-size late version, which Titian said in a letter of 1568 (three years before it was completed) was "an invention involving greater labour and artifice than anything, perhaps, that I have produced for many years", [7] the drama of the composition is ...
Lucius Junius Brutus (died c. 509 BC) [2] was the semi-legendary founder of the Roman Republic, and traditionally one of its first consuls in 509 BC. He was reputedly responsible for the expulsion of his uncle the Roman king Tarquinius Superbus after the suicide of Lucretia, which led to the overthrow of the Roman monarchy.
Livy compared the story of Verginia's death to the rape of Lucretia, whose death led to the overthrow of the Roman monarchy in 509 BC.Modern historians view the stories of Roman women such as Verginia and Lucretia as supporting traditional Roman values through the women's displays of feminine virtue and symbolization of criticisms against the tyrannical Roman government. [6]
Lucretia; raped by a prince, Sextus Tarquinius. [3] The Sabine women; raped by the founders of Rome; Rhea Silvia, raped by Mars. Medusa; raped by Neptune in Minerva's temple, as the rape happens in Ovid's version. Lara; raped by Mercury as he escorted her to the Underworld. Caeneus; formerly known as Caenis raped by Neptune in Ovid's version.
The Rape of Lucretia (Op. 37) is an opera in two acts by Benjamin Britten, written for Kathleen Ferrier, who performed the title role. Ronald Duncan based his English libretto on André Obey 's play Le Viol de Lucrèce [ fr ] .