The Roman Republic (In Our Time)
509 BCE · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and eventual downfall of the Roman Republic which survived for 500 years.Around 550 BC, Lucretia, the daughter of an aristocrat, was raped by the son of Tarquin, the King of Rome. Lucretia told her family what had happened to her and then in front of them, killed herself from shame. The Roman historian Livy describes
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Around 509 BCE
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Ramayana (500 BCE)
- Gautama Buddha (563 BCE)
- Confucius (551 BCE)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BCE)
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)
- Cyrus the Great (600 BCE)
- Parthenon (447 BCE)