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According to legend, Sextus Tarquinius raped a Roman noblewoman named Lucretia. Lucretia compelled her family to take action by gathering the men, telling them what happened, and killing herself.

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Lucretia appears to Dante in the section of Limbo reserved to the nobles of Rome and other "virtuous pagans" in Canto IV of the Inferno.

Thomas Heywood's play The Rape of Lucrece dates from 1607.

The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Lucretia.

The subject also enjoyed a revival in the mid twentieth century; Le Viol de Lucrèce was a 1931 play by André Obey and The Rape of Lucretia, a 1946 opera by Benjamin Britten.


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