Tarpeian Rock
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The Rock of Tarpeia is a steep cliff on the south side of the Capitoline Hill that was used in Ancient Rome as a site of execution.
The site of the Tarpeian Rock as it appeared in 2008
A 19th-century etching of the Tarpeian Rock
The torture of Tarpeia. Roman Republican coinage (denarius), 89 BC
Manlius Hurled From The Rock by William Etty, 1818
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
Tarpeian Rock
…their deaths. The cliff was about 25 meters (80 ft) high. According to early Roman histories, when the Sabine ruler Titus Tatius attacked Rome after the Rape of the Sabines (8th century BC), the Vestal Virgin Tarpeia, daughter of Spurius Tarpeius, governor of the citadel on the Capitoline Hill, betrayed the Romans by opening…
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