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    founding (traditionally dated to 753 BC) by Romulus up to the reign of Tarquin. Archaeological evidence indicates there were kings in Rome; but most scholars...
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    in the storage of the Louvre, catalogued as Lucretia and Tarquin (French: Lucrèce et Tarquin), dated to the first quarter of the 17th century and attributed...
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    sexual advances of Venus; while in The Rape of Lucrece, the virtuous wife Lucrece is raped by the lustful Tarquin. Influenced by Ovid's Metamorphoses, the poems...
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    his poem The Rape of Lucrece to characterize people who take massive risks, including the poem's villainous rapist king, Tarquin the Proud: The aim of...
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    Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece, in Benjamin Britten's opera The Rape of Lucretia based on André Obey's play Le Viol de Lucrèce, and in Nathaniel Lee's...
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  • Queen Zarah and the Zarazians' and 'Histoire secrette de La reine Zarah, et des Zaraziens'. 2018. Reading: University of Reading. Nick Santora, Paul Grellong...
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