Ancient Rome transitioned from a monarchy to a republic in 509 B.C., after its seventh king, Tarquin the Proud, was overthrown in a palace coup triggered by his son, Sextus Tarquinius, who violated a ...

A haughty and somewhat aloof young patrician. The fact that his ancestor Lucius Junius Brutus killed Tarquin, the last despot to rule Rome 200 years before, creates a heavy burden of expectations that ...

Huntington Library Quarterly publishes articles on the literature, history, and art of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries in Britain and America, with special emphasis on: the interactions of ...

A haughty and somewhat aloof young patrician. The fact that his ancestor Lucius Junius Brutus killed Tarquin, the last despot to rule Rome 200 years before, creates a heavy burden of expectations that ...