Collatinus asserted that his wife Lucretia was the most dedicated of wives. The subject of conversation turned to debating the virtues of their wives. While common soldiers toiled with the camp's fortifications, he along with other young noblemen in the king's army spent time drinking and conversing.

Unsuccessful in his attempt, he then laid siege of the town.Īrmy commander Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus was at the Roman military camp outside of Ardea during the siege. Tarquin tried to conquer the town of Ardea the capital of the Rutuli (located 35 km or 22 miles southest of Rome), by storm.

The Rutuli were very wealthy and Tarquin wanted the spoils of war believing also that the booty would appease the Romans. In 509 BC the king was at war with the Rutuli (from the ancient italic word 'rudhuli' meaning 'the blond ones'). The Romans who had come to accept the previous line of Etruscan kings, were beginning to hate everything that the Etruscans stood for. Tarquin put to death a number of senators and significantly diminished the influence and authority of the Senate. While he and his relatives devoted themselves to pleasure, his henchmen carried out campaigns of political murder to remove any and all opposition. He disrespected the Senate and most Roman traditions. Tarquin did not hesitate to use violence to maintain power. Under Tarquin the Proud brutality and decadence flourished. Her father's blood splashed on the chariot and on her clothes. In a frenzy, she seized the reins and drove her chariot's wheels over her father's corpse. It is said that upon returning from the senate house where her husband was finally declared king, towards the Urbian Hill, she saw her father's body lying on the street. The ambitious Tullia then encouraged her husband to advance his position and persuaded him to usurp the throne by killing her very own father. Tullia drives over the corpse of her Father After the horrific murder of their siblings, Tarquin and Tullia Minor were married. So was Tarquin and together with Tullia Minor he conspired to murder his elder brother and his wife, Tullia Major. Tullia Minor was ambitious while her husband Arruns, that she came to hate, was not. He was the son (or grandson) of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, the fifth king of Rome and was married to the daughter of Servius Tullius, the sixth king of Rome: Servius Tullius had married his two daughters, Tullia Major and Tullia Minor, to Tarquin and to his brother Arruns respectively to prevent further conflicts in the monarchy. Tarquinius Superbus or Tarquin the Proud ( superbus in Latin means proud, arrogant, supercilious) came from a line of Etruscan kings that had ruled Rome for centuries.

It is the 6th century BC and Lucius Tarquinius Superbus is the seventh and last king of Rome. Everyone that knew her thought highly of her and appreciated her kindness, loyalty and beauty. She was a beautiful and virtuous woman and the wife of Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, a Roman army commander. The rape of Lucretia and the birth of the Roman Republic Published on 19 December 2017

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