Lucius Junius Brutus
Semi-legendary 6th-century BC founder of Roman Republic
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He toppled a king after his uncle's crime drove a noblewoman to suicide, then executed his own sons for treason. The story that launched the Roman Republic may be legend more than history, but the name became shorthand for tyrannicide — and later inspired Caesar's assassins.
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Lucius Junius Brutus died around 500 BC, remembered as the man who ended Rome's monarchy. After his uncle Tarquinius Superbus's reign culminated in the rape and suicide of Lucretia, Brutus led the expulsion and became one of the Republic's first two consuls. He then forced his fellow consul Tarquinius Collatinus to resign and crushed a conspiracy to restore the old regime. The Junia gens claimed him as founder, a lineage that reached Marcus Junius Brutus, who would plant a dagger in Julius Caesar centuries later. Whether Brutus existed as told is uncertain — some scholars credit the Etruscan k…
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