Causes and organisation of the Republic

• The Rape of Lucretia

  • Competition in who's wife was better
  • Lucretia was very good, found weaving and spinning
  • Sextus found her very virtuous ad wanted her for himself
  • Sextus secretly returned back to Lucretia's hosue and she welcomed him in
  • he then persuades her to have sex with him
  • He then says he will kill her and will kill a slave and put his naked body next to her
  • Lucretia yeilded
• • Lucretia then wrote a latter to her father and husband, they brought with them Publius Valerius and Lucius Brutus