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Lucius Tarquinius Superbus: Lucretia
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Livy's version of the foundation of the Republic states that the last of the Kings of Rome, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus ("Tarquin the proud") had a son, Sextus Tarquinius. Sextus raped a Roman noblewoman named Lucretia. Lucretia compelled her family to take action by gathering her kinsmen, telling them what happened, and then killing herself. The incident led to an uprising that expelled the royal house, the Tarquins, out of Rome into refuge in Etruria.
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Tea suggests Sextus Tarquinius, the "son of the last Roman king, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus. “It was Sextus who raped Lucretia and the result led to the overthrow of the Tarquin dynasty and the establishment of the Republic (509 BC)."
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Lucretia's husband Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus and Lucius Junius Brutus were elected as the first two consuls, the chief officers of the new Republic. The Brutus who assasinated Julius Caesar was a descendent of the first Brutus.
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