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Tarpeia
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In Roman legend, Tarpeia, daughter of the Roman commander Spurius Tarpeius, was a Vestal Virgin who betrayed the city of Rome to the Sabines at the time of their women's abduction for what she thought would be a reward of jewelry. She was instead crushed to death by Sabine shields and her body cast from the southern cliff of Rome's Capitoline Hill, thereafter called after her the Tarpeian Rock.
Reverse of a denarius (89 BCE) depicting the torture of Tarpeia
Reverse of a denarius (89 BCE) depicting the torture of Tarpeia
Reverse of a denarius (19-18 BCE) of Augustus showing Tarpeia crushed by the soldiers' shields
Reverse of a denarius (19-18 BCE) of Augustus showing Tarpeia crushed by the soldiers' shields
Soldiers attacking Tarpeia, on a fragmentary relief from the frieze of the Basilica Aemilia (1st century CE)
Soldiers attacking Tarpeia, on a fragmentary relief from the frieze of the Basilica Aemilia (1st century CE)
Vestal Virgin
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In ancient Rome, the Vestal Virgins or Vestals were priestesses of Vesta, virgin goddess of Rome's sacred hearth and its flame.
2nd-century AD Roman statue of a Virgo Vestalis Maxima (National Roman Museum)
2nd-century AD Roman statue of a Virgo Vestalis Maxima (National Roman Museum)
House of the Vestals and Temple of Vesta from the Palatine
House of the Vestals and Temple of Vesta from the Palatine
Relief of the Vestal Virgins at a banquet, found in 1935 near Rome's Via del Corso (Museum of the Ara Pacis)
Relief of the Vestal Virgins at a banquet, found in 1935 near Rome's Via del Corso (Museum of the Ara Pacis)
The most prominent feature of the ruins that were once the Temple of Vesta is the hearth (seen here in the foreground).
The most prominent feature of the ruins that were once the Temple of Vesta is the hearth (seen here in the foreground).