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What Evidence Survives From the End of the Roman Kingdom? - Lucretia, Brutus, and the Roman Fear of Kingship | Sleepy Facts About History
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The story Romans told about the birth of their Republic is almost impossibly vivid: a virtuous woman violated by a tyrant's son, an oath sworn over her bloody body, and a revolution that replaced kings with elected magistrates for five centuries. Yet the earliest complete account of these events was written hundreds of years after the monarchy fell. This episode examines the traditional narrative of Lucretia, Lucius Junius Brutus, and the expulsion of the Tarquins, separating the polished…
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