The Rape of Lucretia and the Fall of the House of Trump?

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17. My understanding is that it's thought there is some basis in fact

for the story, though there are no contemporary accounts that are known. Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus are the earlieast accounts we have, whch are both some 500 years after the fact. It's thought though that they based their accounts on earlier texts which are now lost.

To quote from the link: "The evidence points to the historical existence of a woman named Lucretia and an event that played a critical part in the downfall of the monarchy. However, specific details are debatable and vary depending on the writer.... According to modern sources, Lucretia's narrative is considered a part of Roman mythohistory."

I don't suppose we'll ever be able to tease out what part is myth and what part might be actual history, unless there's some amazing future find--some text dating much closer the the era in question--that will settle the question.

I first knew the story from the Shakespeare poem, and with all this recent news I went back to read it again, thinking about some of the similiarities and hoping the outcome might be the same.

Best wishes--