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    The gens Lucretia was a prominent family of the Roman Republic. Originally patrician, the gens later included a number of plebeian families. The Lucretii...
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    husband. By either Titian or Palma Vecchio. Lucretia (Veronese) Ancient Rome portal Biography portal Lucretia gens Verginia The Rape of the Sabine Women Matter...
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  • Floodland Lucretia gens, a prominent family of the Roman Republic Lucretia the Tumbler, a court jester in the court of Mary I of England Lucretia, West Virginia...
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    its civil strife. Lucretius probably was a member of the aristocratic gens Lucretia, and his work shows an intimate knowledge of the luxurious lifestyle...
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    expulsion of his uncle the Roman king Tarquinius Superbus after the suicide of Lucretia, which led to the overthrow of the Roman monarchy. He was involved in the...
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    The surname Collatinus was derived from this town. Collatinus married Lucretia, daughter of Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus. According to legend, while...
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  • Roman republic in 429 BC. Lucretius belonged to the ancient patrician Lucretia gens whose ancestors had been among the first consuls of the Republic. Lucretius...
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  • Look up gens in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The gens (plural gentes) was a Roman family, of Italic or Etruscan origins, consisting of all those individuals...
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    "Roman Silver Coins" as "Lucretia 1" and in "Roman Republican Coinage" as "237/1". Lucretia 1: Roma / Dioscuri Lucretia gens Crawford, Michael H. (1974)...
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  • Batiatus with the help of slave and former gladiator, Ashur. Batiatus' wife, Lucretia, is conducting an affair with Crixus. She and Batiatus have been unable...
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    The gens Tarquinia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome, usually associated with Lucius Tarquinius Priscus and Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the fifth and...
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    The gens Horatia was a patrician family at ancient Rome. In legend, the gens dates back to the time of Tullus Hostilius, the third King of Rome. One of...
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    the moneyer cognomen. Lucretia 2: Sol / crescent moon and seven stars Lucretia 3: Neptune / Winged boy on dolphin Lucretia gens Crawford, Michael H. (1974)...
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  • of the Roman Republic in 419 and 417 BC. Lucretius belonged to the Lucretia gens, one of the oldest patrician families. The family had, according to...
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  • party. The stories of Titus and his exploits may in part be mythical. Lucretia gens Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, Commentary on Livy, books 1–5, Oxford, Clarendon...
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    afterwards. He was succeeded in office by Marcus Horatius Pulvillus. Lucretia gens Livy, Ab urbe condita, 1.59 Livy, Ab urbe condita, 2.2 Dionysius of...
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    Roman Republic. Livy compared the story of Verginia's death to the rape of Lucretia, whose death led to the overthrow of the Roman monarchy in 509 BC. Modern...
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  • the patronymic gens Opiternia, and perhaps also gens Opetreia. The praenomen Opiter was used by the patrician gentes Verginia and Lucretia, and several...
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  • gladiator prior to Spartacus's arrival. He becomes Naevia's lover and is Lucretia's unwilling lover. Peter Mensah as Oenomaus/Doctore – an African slave who...
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  • in which the king's second son, Sextus Tarquinius, rapes a noblewoman, Lucretia. Upon revealing the assault to some Roman noblemen, she kills herself....
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    His father reportedly belonged to gens Vergilia, and his mother belonged to gens Magia. According to Conway, gens Vergilia is poorly attested in inscriptions...
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  • played prominent roles in the unfolding of events. It was the rape of Lucretia by Sextus Tarquinius that inspired the Roman nobles to rebel against the...
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    Kershaw County, South Carolina. Admitted to the bar in 1843, he married Lucretia Ann Douglas in Camden in 1844, and was a member of the South Carolina Senate...
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  • The gens Taronia or Tarronia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome, known from the late Republic until at least the fourth century. No members...
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    the Visual Arts: Lucretia and the Sabine Women," in Rape (Blackwell, 1986), p. 199. Augustine's interpretation of the rape of Lucretia (in City of God...
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    as Henrietta Louise Cromwell on September 24, 1890, in Rye, New York to Lucretia Bishop "Eva" Roberts and Oliver Eaton Cromwell. Her brothers were the American...
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  • The gens Opetreia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome. No members of this gens are known to have held any important magistracies, but a number of them...
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  • The gens Orfia was a minor plebeian family at Rome. Few members of this gens are mentioned by ancient writers, but others are known from inscriptions....
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  • chapter 9, refers to the story of the good wife Lucretia which was well known at the time: "If you're a Lucretia," he said, "You've found a Tarquin". The message...
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    abyss. [...] [...] I knew, who in that Limbo were suspended. [...] [...] Lucretia, Julia, Marcia, and Cornelia, [...] Tacitus, Annals, iii. 6. Guy Edward...
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