Lucius Tarquinius Superbus Flashcards
Lived during
535BCE-510BC/509BC
Why superbus
Means proud/arrogant
His family
Him and Arruns were sons of Tarquinius Priscus
Married to servius’s daughters both named Tullia
Him and the younger Tullia got their partners killed so they could marry each other
Becoming king
He was gathering supporters
Was pushed by his wife
Marched into the senate with armed men
Said terrible things about Servius
Servius was thrown out and killed by assassins
Tullia drove her carriage into the forum and called her husband the king, drove over Servius’s body
His terrible actions
Killed senators that he thought preferred Servius
Surrounded himself with armed men
Conducted trials with no jury
Killed/punished people he did not like
Took people’s money
Did not consult the senate in his actions
His tie with the Latins
He married his daughter to Octavius Mamilius the most important Latin chief
Tarquinius and Turnus
Tarquinius invited the Latins to a meeting
They arrived at dawn he arrived at sunset
He said he had been solving a father son argument
Turnus ( a Latin) told Tarquinius that he was rude because Tarquinius wanted power and that the argument should have ended quickly
Tarquinius bribed someone to hide many swords in Turnus’s chambers, he then told the other chiefs that Turnus was plotting to kill them. When they found the swords they believed Tarquinius
Turnus was thrown in a river with rocks
Tarquinius’s joining with the Latins
Praised them for punishing Turnus
Took control of their land by saying there was an ancient treaty
If they did not agree he would destroy them
Mixed up all his soldiers into one with his centurions in charge
War with the Volsci
With the money he built a magnificent temple for Jupiter
War with the Gabii
Difficult to conquer
Pretended to concentrate on building the temple
Sent his son Sextus to the Gabii (pretending to search for refuge from his father)
Gabii took him in thinking he would aid them
Sextus gained so much respect that he ended up running Gabii
Tarquinius sent the signal (knocking the tallest poppy heads together with a stick (to a messenger)) and Sextus killed the important men in Gabii
Sextus shared out the wealth (people didn’t make a fuss beacause she as generous)and delivered the city to his father
Temple of Jupiter
To be built on the tarpeian mountain (his father had promised to build)
omens said all the shrines could be cleared from that area (except that of Terminus)
A head was found, showed that Rome would be the Capitol of the world
Men were hired to build the temple as well as roman men
What he built
Temple of Jupiter
Seats in the circus
A great sewer
Set up towns in the palaces he conquered
The omen
A snake crawled out of the palace
Tarquinius sent two of his sons (Arruns and Titus)to Delphi to discover the meaning
Lucius Junius Brutus was brought with them (he pretended to be stupid to stay safe)
The oracle told them the first to kiss their mother would have the. Most power in Rome, Brutus understood and kissed the ground
Upon their return Rome was about to start war with the Rutuli
Why Wextus wanted to rape Lucretia
The war with the Rutuli became a siege
During a drinking party the officers began to compare wives
Tarquinius Collatinus suggested they ride to Rome to confirm this
All the wives were partying except Lucretia his wife, she was spinning wool
How Sextus raped her
He threatened her with a sword
Said he would place a dead slave in her bed
