" Lucretia Mott then spoke, encouraging all to take up the cause.

She stood up, smoothing her hair down, straightening her clothes, feeling a thankfulness for the enveloping darkness outside, and, above everything else, for the absence of the need to answer, to respond, to be aware even of Stowey coming in or going out, and yet, now that she was beginning to cook, she glimpsed a future without him, a future alone like this, and the pain made her head writhe, and in a moment she found it hard to wait for Lucretia to come with her guests.

Lucius ' wife, Lucretia, daughter of Spurius Lucretius, prefect of Rome, " a man of distinction ", made sure that the king's son was treated as became his rank, although her husband was away at the siege.

The next day Lucretia dressed in black, went to her father's house in Rome and cast herself down in the suppliant's position ( embracing the knees ), weeping.

They found Lucretia in her room.

Christine de Pizan used Lucretia just as St. Augustine of Hippo did in her City of Ladies, defending a woman's sanctity.

In Samuel Richardson's 1740 novel Pamela, Mr. B. cites the story of Lucretia as a reason why Pamela ought not fear for her reputation, should he rape her.

After Garfield's term ended, Lucretia moved to Washington to be with her husband, and the two, thereafter, never lived apart.

While resting after the election, Lucretia gave him a note indicating they had been together only 20 out of the 57 weeks since his first election ; he immediately resolved to take her and the family with him to live in Washington.

It was organized by local New York women upon the occasion of a visit by Philadelphia-based Lucretia Mott, a Quaker famous for her orating ability, a skill rarely cultivated by American women at the time.

Lucretia Mott wrote to say she would bring her sister, Martha Wright, and that the two women would participate in both days of the convention.

Lucretia Mott read a humorous newspaper piece written by her sister Martha Wright in which Wright questioned why, after an overworked mother completed the myriad daily tasks that were required of her but not of her husband, she was the one upon whom written advice was " so lavishly bestowed.

Lucretia Mott spoke for an hour with one of her " most beautiful and spiritual appeals ".

In 1870, Paulina Wright Davis authored a history of the antebellum women's rights movement, and received approval of her account from many of the involved suffragists including Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

In 1647 he published another work, in which play and seriousness are united, Ooghentroost, addressed to Lucretia of Trello, who was losing her sight and who was already half-blind.

Lucretia, believing that the rape dishonored her and her family, committed suicide by stabbing herself with a dagger after telling of what had befallen her.

The asteroid 281 Lucretia ( discovered 1888 ) was named after Caroline's second given name, and the crater C. Herschel on the Moon is named after her.

Lucretia and the monarchy cannot therefore be total myth or an elaborate literary hoax to deceive and entertain the Roman people about an early history that can not otherwise be known.

Lucretia Mott raised questions about the validity of blindly following religious and social tradition.

We know it is a later Rome because the emperor is routinely called Caesar ; because the characters are constantly alluding to Tarquin, Lucretia, and Brutus, suggesting that they learned about Brutus ' new founding of Rome from the same literary sources we do, Livy and Plutarch.

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

The Sisters of Mercy song " Lucretia My Reflection " was written by Eldritch about Morrison.

Meanwhile, the king's son, Sextus Tarquinius snuck away from the camp to Collatia, and raped Lucretia, a beautiful noblewoman, who consequently committed suicide.

St. Augustine made use of the figure of Lucretia in The City of God to defend the honour of Christian women who had been raped in the sack of Rome and had not committed suicide.

Beatrice reveals to Lucretia that the Count has committed an unnameable act against her and expresses feelings of spiritual and physical contamination, implying Cenci's incestuous rape of his daughter.

She may be presumed to have committed suicide, following the example of Lucretia.

The suicide of Lucretia has been an enduring subject for visual artists, including Titian, Rembrandt, Dürer, Raphael, Botticelli, Jörg Breu the Elder, Johannes Moreelse, Artemisia Gentileschi, Damià Campeny, Eduardo Rosales, Lucas Cranach the Elder and others.

The suicide of Lucretia, by Jörg Breu the Elder

Far more rarely, some stories are based on literary or historical sources, such as book 5 of Dante's Purgatory ( part 1, story 11 ), the Lucretia and Tarquin episode in Livy's History of Rome ( part 2, story 15 ), story # 23 of the Heptameron ( part 2, story 17 ), and Francesco Petrarch's Triumph of Love ( part 2, story 41 ).

Every few minutes she would awaken for a moment to review things: Stowey, yes, was on his way south, and the two boys were away in school, and nothing was burning on the stove, and Lucretia was coming for dinner and bringing three guests of hers.

When Anthony died, Douglass was given to Lucretia Auld, wife of Thomas Auld.

Many of those present opposed the idea, including influential Quakers James and Lucretia Mott.

His kingship ended in 509 BC, after his son Sextus Tarquinius raped Lucretia, a married noblewoman known as an exemplar of virtue.

Death of Lucretia, an artistic and symbolic rendition of the event by Sandro Botticelli.

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Lucretia ( died c. 508 B. C.

One of the first two consuls is Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, husband of Lucretia.

The evidence points to the historical existence of a woman named Lucretia and a historical incident that played a critical part in the real downfall of a real monarchy.

Lucretia therefore died in 508 BC.

In a variant of the story, Sextus and Lucius, at a wine party on furlough, were debating the virtues of wives when Lucius volunteered to settle the debate by their all riding to his home to see what Lucretia was doing.

Symbolic rendition of Brutus holding the knife, with Lucretia, and swearing the oath.

Grasping the bloody dagger, he swore by Mars and all the other gods that he would do everything in his power to overthrow the dominion of the Tarquinii and that he would neither be reconciled to the tyrants himself nor tolerate any who should be reconciled to them, but would look upon every man who thought otherwise as an enemy and till his death would pursue with unrelenting hatred both the tyranny and its abettors ; and if he should violate his oath, he prayed that he and his children might meet with the same end as Lucretia.

Titian's Tarquin and Lucretia ( 1571 painting ) | Tarquin and Lucretia.

He leveled a number of charges against the king and his family: the outrage against Lucretia, whom everyone could see on the dais, the king's tyranny, the forced labor of the plebeians in the ditches and sewers of Rome.

Needing to acquire the assent of the population as a whole they paraded Lucretia through the streets summoning the plebeians to legal assembly in the forum.