Painful Paradoxes: Unresolved Cultural Tensions and the Response to Human Suffering in The Rape of Lucretia
Myths are cultural repositories that reveal a society’s most intimate values, as well as its flaws. The rape of Lucretia is the myth of the founding of the Roman Republic, which is inspired by the rape of the Roman wife Lucretia by the Etruscan Prince Sextus Tarquinius, and her subsequent suicide. T...
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The University of Arizona.
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/297704 |