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1 image file : digital, JPEG. |
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Early Roman History anthology |
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Early Roman History anthology.
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BiblioBoard Core module.
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Original document: Painting. |
| Summary |
This painting depicts the rape of the Sabine women by Romulus and the men of Rome. In the early days of Rome, the city was mostly populated by men who wereℓrunaway slaves, refugees and similar, and they sought wives from neighboring cities, but the men of the bordering towns forbade their daughters to marry Romans. Eventually the Romans held a festival and invited all their neighbors, including the Sabine. When the Romans had made the men drunk, they captured the women and, according to popular history, raped or otherwise induced them to marry them. Historian Livy attests, however, that no rape took place.ℓAccording to Livy, Romulus spoke to all the women, "and pointed out to them that it was all owing to the pride of their parents in denying the right of intermarriage to their neighbours. They would live in honourable wedlock, and share all their property and civil rights, and—dearest of all to human nature—would be the mothers of free men." |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
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Pietro, da Cortona, 1597-1669, artist.
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