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4 unusual facts about Lucius Tarquinius Superbus


Lucius Tarquinius Superbus

In secret, while the Senate debated his request, the ambassadors met with and subverted a number of the leading men of Rome to the royal cause, in the Tarquinian conspiracy.

A quotation concerning Tarquinius and the poppy allegory appears in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling.

Philippina Espenshied

Her husband was a member of the oldest living German family in the world, whose ancestry was direct from the Roman family name Superbus.

Thomas Heywood

The Tragedy of the Rape of Lucrece (1608), which chronicles the rise and fall of Tarquin as presented by a "merry lord", Valerius, who lightens the gloom of the situation by singing comic songs


Hero of Rome

Il Colosso di Roma (English Translation: Hero of Rome) is a 1964 Italian historical drama film set in Rome in 508 BC, and depicts the expulsion of the last kings of Rome and the legend of Gaius Mucius Scaevola.

Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus

He was the first Suffect Consul of Rome and was also the father of Lucretia, whose rape by Sextus Tarquinius, followed by her suicide, resulted in the dethronement of King Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, therefore directly precipitating the founding of the Roman Republic.


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