Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Overthrow of the Roman monarchy" in English language version.
It has come to be second nature ... to date the founding of Rome [to] 753 BC [and] the first year of the Republic [to] 509 BC.
Most scholars reject the historicity of the story about the fall of monarchy.
It is natural to conclude that the stories of Lucretia and her father... and Horatius Cocles, and of the heroine Cloelia, all date from the fifth century or early fourth, while those of Brutus and Mucius were created in the late fourth and late third centuries respectively.
Utinam viveres read one graffito, scrawled beneath the statue of Lucius Brutus: 'If only you were alive'... the people – in the version told by Dio at least – made it abundantly clear for [Marcus Brutus]: 'Brutus! Brutus!' they repeatedly called after him... [Marcus] Brutus had structured his entire career and reputation around his ancestor's opposition to tyranny: now he had to live up to that name.
Most scholars reject the historicity of the story about the fall of monarchy.
Utinam viveres read one graffito, scrawled beneath the statue of Lucius Brutus: 'If only you were alive'... the people – in the version told by Dio at least – made it abundantly clear for [Marcus Brutus]: 'Brutus! Brutus!' they repeatedly called after him... [Marcus] Brutus had structured his entire career and reputation around his ancestor's opposition to tyranny: now he had to live up to that name.
It has come to be second nature ... to date the founding of Rome [to] 753 BC [and] the first year of the Republic [to] 509 BC.
It is natural to conclude that the stories of Lucretia and her father... and Horatius Cocles, and of the heroine Cloelia, all date from the fifth century or early fourth, while those of Brutus and Mucius were created in the late fourth and late third centuries respectively.
It has come to be second nature ... to date the founding of Rome [to] 753 BC [and] the first year of the Republic [to] 509 BC.
It has come to be second nature ... to date the founding of Rome [to] 753 BC [and] the first year of the Republic [to] 509 BC.