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Lucretia

Look up Lucretia at Dictionary.com fem. proper name, from L. Lucretia (cf. Fr. Lucrèce), fem. of Lucretius, Roman masc. proper name, originally the name of a Roman gens.

The beginning and the end of the Kingdom of Rome (753 BC – 509 BC)

Wife of Numa Pompilius, the legendary second king of Rome. Many of Rome's most important religious and political institutions are attributed to him.

The end of the Kingdom of Rome and the beginning of the Republic is somehow connected to another (tragic) Lucretia: 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.

The gens Lucretia was a prominent family of the Roman Republic. Originally patrician, the gens later included a number of plebeian families. The Lucretii were one of the most ancient gentes. The first of the Lucretii to obtain the consulship was Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus in 509 BC, the first year of the Republic.