According to the story, told mainly by the Roman historian Livy and the Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( who lived in Rome at the time of the Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus ), her rape by the king's son and consequent suicide were the immediate cause of the revolution that overthrew the monarchy and established the Roman Republic.

According to Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( 1. 50. 3 ), Zacynthus was the first settler on the island afterwards called Zacynthus.

According to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ascanius ' original name was Euryleon and this name was changed to Ascanius after his flight from Troy.

According to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, however, Julus was a son of Ascanius who disputed the succession of the kingdom of Alba Longa with Silvius, upon the death of Ascanius.

According to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, many Roman historians ( including Porcius Cato and Gaius Sempronius ) regarded the origins of the Romans ( descendants of the Aborigines ) as Greek despite the fact that their knowledge was derived from Greek legendary accounts.

According to the historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Into this gap stepped Sextus Tarquinius ( unless previously assassinated at Gabii ), whose rape of Lucretia had been the event that triggered the revolution.

According to his friend and fellow-student, Cassiodorus, although by birth a " Scythian ", Dionysius was in character a true Roman and a thorough Catholic, most learned in both tongues ( by which he meant Greek and Latin ), and an accomplished Scripturist.

According to others, he was poisoned by his physicians at the instigation of his son, Dionysius the Younger who succeeded him as ruler of Syracuse.

According to Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus the war originated with a Samnite attack on the Lucanians.

According to Diogenes Laertius, he forged plays under the name of Thespis, and according to the same author, this time drawing from a different source, Dionysius the Deserter composed plays and forged them under the name of Sophocles.

According to Bar Hebraeus, many Christians had their property confiscated, and Dionysius was angered both at the injustice of Muslim policy and at his own inability to protect the Christians.

According to Dionysius of Corinth, quoted by Eusebius, this Dionysius then became the second Bishop of Athens.

According to Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the author of the life ascribed to Plutarch, Lysias was born in 459 BC, which would accord with a tradition that Lysias reached, or passed, the age of eighty.

According to Dionysius he was elected by the people, although according to Livius he was one of three chosen by his colleagues.

According to legend ( possibly one created by Caravaggio ), Dionysius used the cave as a prison for political dissidents, and by means of the perfect acoustics eavesdropped on the plans and secrets of his captives.

According to Bopearachchi, Dionysius inherited only the inferior celators of Apollodotus II, which he associates with mints in eastern Punjab.

According to Livy and Dionysius the heir of Aeneas Silvius was named Latinus Silvius.

According to Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Livy, the foundations and most of the superstructure of the temple were completed by Lucius Tarquinius Superbus.

According to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, the same plan and foundations were used for later rebuildings of the temple.

According to Dionysius it was Tarquinius Priscus who set the statue up, ' in front of the senate-house near the sacred fig-tree ; it was shorter than a man of average height and the head was covered '.

According to Dionysius of Halicarnassus the place where the sow bore the piglets and Aeneas made the sacrifice was sacred, and forbidden to foreigners.

According to the histories of Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus, the magistracy of the tribuni militum consulari potestate was created during the Conflict of the Orders, along with the magistracy of the censor, in order to give the Plebeian order access to higher levels of government without having to reform the office of consul ; plebeians could be elected to the office of Consular Tribune.

According to the Suda ( an 11th-century encyclopaedia of Byzantium which likely took its information from traditional accounts ), Herodotus learned the Ionian dialect as a boy living on the island of Samos, whither he had fled with his family from the oppressions of Lygdamis, tyrant of Halicarnassus and grandson of Artemisia I of Caria.

According to the dictionary Suda, however, the proverbial expression " Termerian mischief " was due to a fortified dungeon located in Caria near Mount Termerion lying between Myndus and Halicarnassus.

According to Romans 9 – 11, supporters claim, Jewish election as the chosen people ceased with their national rejection of Jesus as Messiah.

According to legend, Castor and Pollux announced to one of their ancestors the victory of the Romans over the Latins at the battle of Lake Regillus, and, to confirm the truth of what they had just said, they stroked his black hair and beard, which immediately became red.

According to Strabo, writing two centuries after the events, rather than being destroyed by the Romans like their Celtic neighbours, " the Boii were merely driven out of the regions they occupied ; and after migrating to the regions round about the Ister, lived with the Taurisci, and carried on war against the Daci until they perished, tribe and all — and thus they left their country, which was a part of Illyria, to their neighbours as a pasture-ground for sheep.

According to Tacitus, they drew inspiration from the example of Arminius, the prince of the Cherusci who had driven the Romans out of Germany in AD 9, and their own ancestors who had driven Julius Caesar from Britain.

According to traditional scholarly consensus, Paul authored the Epistle to the Romans.

According to Ruickbie ( 2004, p. 19 ) the Greeks observed two days sacred to Hecate, one on the 13th of August and one on the 30th of November, whilst the Romans observed the 29th of every month as her sacred day.

According to Roman tradition, Hannibal had been made to swear by his father never to be a friend of Rome, and he certainly did not take a conciliatory attitude when the Romans berated him for crossing the river Iberus ( Ebro ) which Carthage was bound by treaty not to cross.

According to the legend, the Gauls offered to deliver Rome back to its people for a thousand pounds of gold, but the Romans refused, preferring to take back their city by force of arms rather than ever admitting defeat, after which the Romans recovered the city in the same year.

According to Tacitus, 10, 000 Britons and 360 Romans are killed.

According to Roman legend, the Quirinal Hill was the site of a small village of the Sabines, and king Titus Tatius would have lived there after the peace between Romans and Sabines.

According to Gregory, another group of Alans, led by Goar, crossed the Rhine at the same time, but immediately joined the Romans and settled in Gaul.

According to Suetonius, this caused consternation ; the ceremony required Titus to wear a diadem, which the Romans associated with kingship, and the partisanship of Titus's legions had already led to fears that he might rebel against his father.

According to early historians John of Fordun and Boethius, Carlisle existed before the arrival of the Romans in Britain and was one of the strongest British towns at the time.

According to Greek mythology adopted by the Etruscans and Romans, when Hercules had to perform twelve labours, one of them was to fetch the Cattle of Geryon of the far West and bring them to Eurystheus ; this marked the westward extent of his travels.

According to the historian Procopius, Majorian, " who surpassed in every virtue all who have ever been emperors of the Romans ", wanted to know personally the military readiness of the Vandals and how the local populations would have reacted to the Roman invasion.

According to Livy, after the overthrow of the monarchy, the Romans created the priesthood of the rex sacrorum, or " king of sacred rites ," to carry out certain religious duties and rituals previously performed by the king.

According to ancient authorities, she was a goddess who relieved men from pain and sorrow, or delivered the Romans and their flocks from angina ( quinsy ).

According to Quintilian ( 10. 1. 58 ) he was the chief of the elegiac poets ; his elegies were highly esteemed by the Romans ( see Neoterics ), and imitated by Ovid, Catullus, and especially Sextus Propertius.

According to Stanislawski, there is little evidence that the Romans adopted the Etruscan model at Marzabatto early in their expansion.

According to this treaty, Armenia was partitioned between the Romans and the Persians.

According to early Roman histories, when the Sabine ruler Titus Tatius attacked Rome after the Rape of the Sabines ( 8th century BC ), the Vestal Virgin Tarpeia, daughter of Spurius Tarpeius, governor of the citadel on the Capitoline Hill, betrayed the Romans by opening the city gates for the Sabines in return for ' what they bore on their arms.

According to Cicero, the Romans considered themselves the most religious of all peoples ; and their extraordinary success proved it.

According to Robert Jewett the film's dialogue parallels Paul's teaching on divine retribution ( Romans 12: 19-21 ).