Sabines
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The Sabines were an Italic people who lived in the central Apennine Mountains of the ancient Italian Peninsula, also inhabiting Latium north of the Anio before the founding of Rome.
Amiternum, an ancient city founded by the Sabines
Bronze and amber jewellery, c. 800-700 BC
Jewellery, c. 800-700 BC
Ornaments, c. 800-700 BC
Rape of the Sabine women
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The kidnapping of the Sabine women; traditionally known as the Rape of the Sabine women and also known as the abduction of the Sabine women, was an incident in the early history of Rome in which the m
Sabines
…list should not be taken at face value. But the importance of the Sabines in the early cultural formation of Rome is evidenced, for instance, by the bride abduction of the Sabine women by Romulus's men, and in the Sabine ethnicity of Numa Pompilius, second king of Rome, to whom are attributed many of Rome's religious and legal…
Abduction of a Sabine Woman by Giambologna, Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence
The Abduction of the Sabine Women, by Poussin, 1634–35 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
The Rape of the Sabine Women, by Peter Paul Rubens
Rape of the Sabine Women by Pietro da Cortona, 1627–1629