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	Sextus Tarquinius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sextus Tarquinius was the son of the last legendary king of Rome, L.
		After an argument at night around the fire, Tarquinius and his men decided to go and spy on their wives to see which one was the most superior.
		Tarquinius fleed to Gabii, where he made himself king, but was eventually killed in revenge of his actions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sextus_Tarquinius (253 words)

	TARQUINIUS SUPERBUS - LoveToKnow Article on TARQUINIUS SUPERBUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Tarquinius appears as a Greek tyrant of the ordinary kind, who surrounds himself with a bodyguard and erects magnificent buildings to keep the people employed; on the other hand, an older tradition represents him as more like Romulus.
		The stratagem by which Tarquinius obtained possession of the town of Gabii is a mere fiction, derived from Greek and Oriental sources.
		Sextus thereupon put to death all the chief men of the town, and thus obtained the mastery.
	30.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TA/TARQUINIUS_SUPERBUS.htm (1927 words)

	Lucretia 2, Greek Mythology Link.
		Tarquinius Priscus was succeeded by Servius Tullius, said to be the son of Hephaestus and Ocresia.
		Tarquinius Collatinus is son of Egerius, son of Arruns 2, son of Demaratus of Corinth and a Tarquinian woman.
		Ancus Marcius, Arruns 2, Demaratus, Egerius, Hephaestus, Lucius Junius Brutus, Lucretia 2, Numa 3, Ocresia, Pompilia, Romulus, Servius Tullius, Sextus Tarquinius, Tarquinius Collatinus, Tarquinius Priscus, Tarquinius Superbus, Tricipitinus, Tullia, Tullus Hostilius.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Lucretia2.html (1537 words)

	The Rape of Lucretia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Sextus Superbus had threes sons, one of which was Sextus Tarquinius, who was the commander when Rome was fighting with Ardea.
		Sextus Tarquinius and his brothers were bathing in the quarters when the conversation of each man's wife came up.
		At this time, Sextus Tarquinius was held with an immoral desire to rape Lucretia because of her innocence and beauty.
	www.svh.richland2.org /~mmyer/2/Myth2History/LucretiaEC.html (420 words)

	HIST 1031: Homepage
		One day when the young men were drinking at the house of Sextus Tarquinius, after a supper where they had dined with the son of Egerius, Tarquinius Conlatinus, they fell to talking about their wives, and each man fell to praising his wife to excess.
		It was then that Sextus Tarquinius was seized by the desire to violate Lucretia's chastity, seduced both by her beauty and by her exemplary virtue.
		Sextus Tarquinius declared his love for her, begging and threatening her alternately, and attacked her soul in every way.
	cla.umn.edu /courses/hist1031/perry/week5.htm (992 words)

	Livy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The royal princes sometimes spent their leisure hours in feasting and entertainments, and at a wine party given by Sextus Tarquinius at which Collatinus, the son of Egerius, was present, the conversation happened to turn upon their wives, and each began to speak of his own in terms of extraordinarily high praise.
		He dwelt upon the brutality and licentiousness of Sextus Tarquin, the infamous outrage on Lucretia and her pitiful death, the bereavement sustained by her father, Tricipitinus, to whom the cause of his daughter's death was more shameful and distressing than the actual death itself.
		Sextus Tarquin proceeded to Gabii, which he looked upon as his kingdom, but was killed in revenge for the old feuds he had kindled by his rapine and murders.
	www.classics.und.ac.za /LivyLucretia.htm (1416 words)

	Tarquinius Superbus
		Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, son of Tarquinius Priscus and son-in-law of Servius Tullius, the seventh and last legendary king of Rome, reigning 534-510 BC.
		His reign was characterized by bloodshed and violence; the outrage of his son Sextus upon Lucretia precipitated a revolt, which led to the expulsion of the entire family.
		The stratagem of Sextus is that practised by Zopyrus is the case of Babylon, while the episode of the poppy-heads is borrowed from the advice given by Thrasybulus to Periander (Herodotus III 154, V 92).
	www.nndb.com /people/439/000098145 (547 words)

	Untitled
		Tarquinius Superbus (Tarquin the Proud) was the seventh king of Rome.
		His youngest son, Sextus Tarquinius, fell in love with Lucretia, the wife of his second cousin, Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus (a Tarquin family tree).
		This oath was not enough to quiet the people’s fears, and Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, as part of the Tarquin family, was also forced to go into exile (although Brutus was more nearly related by blood it was through his mother, and so he was not counted as part of the Tarquin family).
	www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/ancient_biographies/110478 (1036 words)

	Lucius Tarquinius Superbus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (also called Tarquin the Proud or Tarquin II) was the last of the seven legendary kings of Rome, son of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, and son-in-law of Servius Tullius.
		Tarquin's reign was characterised by bloodshed and violence; his son Sextus Tarquinius's rape of Lucretia precipitated a revolt, lead by Lucretia's kinsman Lucius Junius Brutus.
		The uprising resulted in the expulsion of the entire royal family, after Tarquin had reigned for twenty-five years, and Brutus became one of the first consuls of the Roman Republic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lucius_Tarquinius_Superbus (573 words)

	Livy, The Rape of Lucretia
		Sextus Tarquinius is he that last night returned hostility for hospitality, and brought ruin on me, and on himself no less—if you are men—when he worked his pleasure with me."
		He spoke of the violence and lust of Sextus Tarquinius, of the shameful defilement of Lucretia and her deplorable death, of the bereavement of Tricipitinus, in whose eyes the death of his daughter was not so outrageous and deplorable as was the cause of her death.
		Sextus Tarquinius departed for Gabii, as though it had been his own kingdom, and there the revengers of old quarrels, which he had brought upon himself by murder and rapine, slew him.
	www.wsu.edu /~dee/ROME/RAPE.HTM (1680 words)

	Rembrandt
		Lucretia was married to Lucius Tarquinias Collantinus, a Roman nobleman, who was away when she met Sextus Tarquinius, whose father is a ruling tyrant of Rome.
		Sextus Tarquinius was immediately drawn to Lucretia's beauty and purity, that he took it upon himself to dishonor her.
		After Sextus Tarquinius raped Lucretia, he laid a dead body next to her and told her husband that he found her committing adultery.
	www2.students.sbc.edu /cesarz00/Rembrandt.html (1058 words)

	WLGR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A.D. While they were drinking at Sextus Tarquinius' house, where Tarquinius Collatinus, son of Egerius, was also dining, the conversation happened to turn to their wives.
		That was when Sextus Tarquinius became inflamed by lust and became possessed by the idea of raping Lucretia.
		Tarquinius confessed his love and tried to persuade her with a combination of entreaties and threats.
	www.stoa.org /diotima/anthology/wlgr/wlgr-publiclife166.shtml (634 words)

	TARQUINIUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Sextus Tarquinius, son of Tarquinius Superbus, was the cousin of Lucretia's husband, Collatinus.
		Tarquinius was seized with violent lust for Lucretia and returned later to her house.
		Tarquinius, however, threatened her with death if she did not yield to him, then he raped her.
	www.columbia.edu /dlc/garland/deweever/T/tarquin1.htm (210 words)

	Lucius Tarquinius Superbus
		Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, called Tarquin II for short, king of Rome, son of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, and son-in-law of Servius Tullius, immediately succeeded the latter without any election, and proceeded at once to repeal the recent reforms in the constitution, seeking to establish a pure despotism in their place.
		His reign was characterised by bloodshed and violence; the outrage of his son Sextus Tarquinius upon Lucretia precipitated a revolt, which led to the expulsion of the entire family, after Tarquin had reigned twenty-five years.
		All efforts to force his way back to the throne were in vain, and he died a lonely and childless old man at Cumae in Etruria.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/lu/Lucius_Tarquinius_Superbus.html (223 words)

	BRUTUS2
		After is the destination tag.he had increased his influence, Lucius Tarquinius and an armed guard went to the Forum, where he sat on the king's throne and called himself king.
		Tarquinius decided to dispatch his sons Titus and Arruns to make inquiry at Apollo's oracle at Delphi and sent with them Brutus as a butt for their amusement.
		One day the young princes were drinking in the quarters of Sextus Tarquinius, another of King Tarquinius's sons.
	phoenixandturtle.net /excerptmill/brutus3.htm (966 words)

	Teachers' Resource Web Maintained by Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D.
		Young Tarquin or Sextus Tarquinius: third son of Tarquinius Superbus, cousin to Lucius Junius Brutus and Collatinus; rapes Collatinus' wife Lucretia.
		Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus: cousin to Sextus Tarquinius and Brutus; husband to Lucretia.
		The Rape: Sextus Tarquinius, son of the tyrant Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, was struck with Lucretia's chaste beauty and resolved to have her (Ovid lines 761-783).
	www.ajdrake.com /teachers/teaching/guides/classical/ovid's_lucretia.htm (866 words)

	Lucius Tarquinius Superbus explained (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		'''Lucius Tarquinius Superbus''' (also called Tarquin the Great or Tarquin II) was the last of the seven legendary kings of Rome, son of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, and son-in-law of Servius Tullius.
		His reign was characterised by bloodshed and violence; his son Sextus Tarquinius's rape of Lucretia precipitated a revolt, which led to the expulsion of the entire family, after Tarquin had reigned twenty-five years.
		Even though the powerful Etruscan lord Lars Porsena of Clusium (modern Chiusi) backed Tarquin's return, all efforts to force his way back to the throne were in vain, and he died a lonely and childless old man at Cumae in Etruria.
	www.wordspider.net /lu/lucius-tarquinius-superbus.html (754 words)

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		Tired of asking and waiting for an answer, and feeling his mission to be a failure, the messenger returned to Gabii, and reported what he had said and seen, adding that the king, whether through temper or personal aversion or the arrogance which was natural to him, had not uttered a single word.
		When it had become clear to Sextus what his father meant him to understand by his mysterious silent action, he proceeded to get rid of the foremost men of the State by traducing some of them to the people, whilst others fell victims to their own unpopularity.
		It is of a Rome henceforth free that I am to write the history-her civil administration and the conduct of her wars, her annually elected magistrates, the authority of her laws supreme over all her citizens.
	www.uvm.edu /~bwalsh/romciv/LivyTarquinRepublic.html (5334 words)

	Tarquin: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		He rose to high position, and on the death of Ancus Martius (c.616 b.c.) he either seized the Roman throne or was elected to it by a coalition of Etruscan families.
		The romantic reason traditionally given for the deposition of Tarquin was the rape of Lucretia (see Lucrece) by his son Sextus Tarquinius.
		...was cornered by Sextus, the son of the Tarquin king, and given the option of acceding...led a successful revolution against the Tarquin dynasty, thereby founding the Roman Republic...of the Oval Office is another Sextus Tarquinius.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/tarquin.jsp?l=T&p=1 (1916 words)

	Tarquin -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Tarquinius Superbus was, in legend, the son or grandson of Tarquinius Priscus and son-in-law of Servius Tullius.
		Eventually a group of senators led by Lucius Junius Brutus raised a revolt, the immediate cause of which was the rape of a noblewoman, Lucretia, by Tarquin's son Sextus.
		According to tradition, she was the beautiful and virtuous wife of the nobleman Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9071322 (574 words)

	LUCRETIA - LoveToKnow Article on LUCRETIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		, a Roman lady, wife of Lucius Tarquinius Col-latinus, distinguished for her beauty and domestic virtues.
		Having been outraged by Sextus Tarquinius, one of the sons of Tarquinius Superbus, she informed her father and her husband, and, having exacted an oath of vengeance from them, stabbed herself to death.
		Lucius Junius.Brutus, her husband's cousin, put himself at the head of the people, drove out the Tarquins, and established a republic.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LU/LUCRETIA.htm (108 words)

	...And So It Is: The Rape of Lucrece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This leads Sextus Tarquinius, son of the king, to go to Collatinus' house to view Lucrece for himself.
		She must find a means of purging Tarquinius from herself for though her body is stained, she recognizes that her soul is pure.
		The majority of the poem is told from the narrator's point of view; however, both Tarquinius (in the first half) and Lucrece (in the second half) have their own monologues and the reader is able to understand the thought process of both the person committing the crime and the victim.
	tender-kisses.blogspot.com /2005/03/rape-of-lucrece.html (401 words)

	The Rape of Lucretia Show Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Rome is ruled despotically by the Etruscan king Tarquinius Superbus.
		His son, Tarquinius Sextus (the Tarquinius of the opera) leads Roman youth to Etruscan war and treats the proud city as if it were his whore.
		She awakes at his kiss; her protests and struggles to free herself are in vain, and Tarquinius forces himself upon her.
	www.portlandopera.org /2005/lucretia/plot.shtml (319 words)

	LUCRECE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		late sixth century B.C., daughter of the consul Lucretius, was the wife of Tarquinius Collatinus, an officer in the Roman army.
		Sextus Tarquinius, Collatinus's cousin, immediately caught fire with lust for Lucretia.
		She prepared a meal for him, but after the meal Tarquinius pulled his sword and threatened her with death unless she yielded to his lust.
	www.columbia.edu /dlc/garland/deweever/L/lucrece.htm (377 words)

	Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (Tarquin the Proud) a descendant from an Etruscan family (he was the son of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus) was the legendary seventh (and the last) king of ancient Rome.
		Eventually a group of senators led by Lucius Junius Brutus (another Etruscan nobleman) raised a revolt.The romantic reason traditionally given for the deposition of Tarquin was the rape of Lucretia by his son Sextus Tarquinius.
		After the subsequent suicide of Lucretia, her husband, Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, and the Brutus family (to which Lucretia belonged) raised a rebellion.
	www.unrv.com /bio/lucius-tarquinius-superbus.php (478 words)

	Violence and the Roman State Guide for Chapman University Freshman Foundations 100, Fall 2002, Alfred J. Drake
		Rather than be held up as an example of unchastity -- "no unchaste woman shall henceforth live and plead Lucretia's example" she says -- Lucretia lets death serve as a pledge for her adherence to the code of female married chastity necessary to preserve Roman family and dynastic bloodlines.
		The matron's death allows her determined husband Collatinus, Lucius Junius Brutus, and others to use her outraged, silent corpse as a prop for the expulsion of the Tarquin (Etruscan) King Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, father of Lucretia's rapist, Sextus Tarquinius.
		1.57:....The royal princes sometimes spent their leisure hours in feasting and entertainments, and at a wine party given by Sextus Tarquinius at which Collatinus, the son of Egerius, was present, the conversation happened to turn upon their wives, and each began to speak of his own in terms of extraordinarily high praise.
	www.ajdrake.com /ff100_fall_02/materials/guides/anc_lucretia_state.htm (1101 words)

	Shakespeare Rape of Lucrece Summary
		During which siege the principal men of the army meeting one evening at the tent of Sextus Tarquinius, the king's son, in their discourses after supper every one commended the virtues of his own wife: among whom Collatinus extolled the incomparable chastity of his wife Lucretia [Lucrece].
		1) The lust-driven Sextus Tarquinius (called "Tarquin" in the poem) sneaks away from the siege at Ardea (and Lucrece's husband) to Collatium where the chaste Lucrece and her husband Collatine live.
		She asks when Sextus left, and the maid says it was before she was up.
	www.mcgoodwin.net /pages/otherbooks/ws_rapeoflucrece.html (1821 words)

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