Roman Monarchical Period (1 Jan 753 Jahr v. Chr. – 1 Jan 509 Jahr v. Chr.)

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“According to tradition, the last three kings were Etruscan, and another tale about female virtue was told to explain why the Etruscan kings were overthrown, for ancient historians often attributed major government upheavals to the possession or loss of women. In this story, the son of King Tarquin, the Etruscan king who ruled Rome, raped Lucretia, a virtuous Roman wife, in her own home. Lucretia summoned her husband and father to the house, told them what had happened, and demanded they seek vengeance. She then committed suicide by plunging a knife into her heart. Her father and husband and the other Roman nobles swore on the bloody knife to avenge Lucretia’s death by throwing out the Etruscan kings, and they did. Whether any part of this story is true can never be known, but Romans generally accepted it as history and dated the expulsion of the Etruscan kings to 509 B.C.E. They saw this year as marking the end of the monarchical period and the dawn of the republic.”

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