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Lucretia
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Lucretia
Lucretia
or
Lucrece
(
Latin
:
Lucretia
; died ) was a
legendary
Roman
matron
whose fate played a vital role in the transition from a
Roman Kingdom
into a
Roman Republic
. While there were no contemporary sources, accounts from Roman historian
Livy
(Livius) and Greek-Roman historian
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
from the time of Emperor
Caesar Augustus
(around the start of the
Common Era
) agreed that there was such a woman and that her
suicide
after being raped by an Etruscan king's son was the immediate cause of the
anti-monarchist
rebellion that
overthrew the monarchy
.
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