The Rape of the Sabine Women

the social-political framework can be ascribed to the women of early Rome. Throughout Ancient Roman history women have played crucial roles, such as Numitor's daughter, the vestal virgin, Rea Silvia, the she wolf who saved the twins Remus and Romulus and the Sabine women who united the two nations under Rome. The women, ascribed by Livy played a pivotal role as they attributed to the social-political structure in the early days of Rome; Women of early Rome prompted and influenced historical, social-political

and his wife assassinated by his wife. In one of Rome’s founding stories, the basis of the empire, because a group of people wanted to expand their city, the Rape of the Sabines occurred: an event in which the early Romans tricked surrounding civilizations into coming to a feast, and then they kidnapped and raped all of the women from the Sabine tribe. Innovative By

Our first piece of art, on the left, is titled Rape of a Sabine by Giambologna in 1583. This is a three-dimensional sculpture that has many curves and points of view. You can circle around this sculpture and find aspects of it you couldn’t visualize at one point. The faces of the sculptured men and woman have a look of despair, sorrow, and misery that create for a very dramatic piece. Rape of the Sabine tells a story of roman men seizing Sabine women to marry them in order for the city of Rome to

     In 753 BC Rome was a small community. Its people, the Romans, were Latins mixed with Sabines. The Latins spoke an Indo-European language, which they called the lingua Latina, the Latin tongue. Down the center of Italy, through the Umbrian, Sabine, and Samnite country, were other Indo European tribes. All these peoples were blond intruders from the north, and were cousins to the Greeks. In Venetia and in Parugia, on

evolved as well, to where violence and rape have become a normal part of society as a whole. Through the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, the novels Things fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, and the poem A White man’s Burden by Rudyard Kipling, rape is used to insert superiority

between the unmarried women and the men, the women were far outnumbered. Romulus knew that a new city like his couldn’t survive without women to increase the population, and that they quickly need more. After appeals to the neighboring cities with no avail, he decided that if they would not come, he would take them by force. His solution for this is to set a trap for the Sabine women, a festival was announced and people from neighboring cities were invited. Once they arrived, the women were carried off

Women play different roles throughout mythology. The Greeks and Romans for example viewed women as prizes to men, as male’s lesser counterparts and with roles that required them to be seen and not heard. Yet there are Goddesses with stories that tell of their victories, stories that spit in the face of the standards women were expected to follow. It is easy to assume that strong and deserving women were simply misrepresented due to the male dominated societies they lived in. It is no secret that

It would be easy to assume that thousands of years later, the rape culture evident in ancient Rome would have evolved, changed significantly, or quite simply been eradicated, but in this world, there still exists many similarities between ancient Rome’s rape culture and modern rape culture. In Livy The Early History of Rome, we read the founding myths which shaped Rome. These stories include the tale of Romulus and Remus, but I will be talking about their mother, Rhea Silvia who was made into a Vestal

place in South Africa during the post apartheid era. A time where people were divided into races and whites held power over the minority. The protagonist David Lurie is a college professor who lives a promiscuous double life. Sleeps with different women, but never feels nothing more than a physical connection towards them. David finally gets the sparks he’s been waiting for after he begins a sexual relationship with one of his students. The relationship between David and the student quickly expires

Satire and irony are two writing techniques that authors sometimes use to amuse and/or make their audience think harder. Although there is a difference between the two techniques, it is slim and frequently hard to differentiate. Satire is often used to effect irony; these two terms have a compatible relationship in that way. Personally I am more inclined to respond better to satire because I was brought up in a family who rarely said things straightforward; satire, specifically with the incorporation