Editing Lucretia (section)

==Early life and marriage==
[[File:Poorter Lucrèce (2004 1 379).jpg|thumb|[[Willem de Poorter]]'s ''Lucrèce à l'ouvrage'' (1633), a less common depiction of Lucretia weaving with her ladies|left|185x185px]]
Lucretia was the daughter of magistrate [[Spurius Lucretius]] and the wife of [[Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus]].<ref name=":04" /> The marriage between Lucretia and Collatinus was depicted as the ideal Roman union, as both Lucretia and Collatinus were faithfully devoted to one another. According to Livy, Lucretia was an exemplar of "beauty and purity," as well as Roman standards.<ref name=":04" /> While her husband was away at battle, Lucretia would stay at home and pray for his safe return. As with Livy, [[Dionysius of Halicarnassus|Dionysius]]' depiction of Lucretia separates her from the rest of Roman women in a story about the men returning home from a battle. The narrative begins with a bet between the sons of Tarquinius and their kinsmen, [[Lucius Junius Brutus|Brutus]] and [[Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus|Collatinus]]. The men fight over which of their wives best exemplified [[sophrosyne]], an ideal of superb moral and intellectual character.<ref name=":122">{{Cite journal|last=Mallan|first=C|title=The Rape of Lucretia in Cassius Dio'sroman History|date=2014|journal=The Classical Quarterly|edition=2|volume=64|issue=2|pages=758–771|doi=10.1017/S0009838814000251|s2cid=170269185}}</ref> The men return home to find the women socializing with each other, presumably in conversation. By contrast, they find Lucretia home alone, working with her wool in silence. Because of her devotion to her husband, Roman writers Livy and Dionysius outline Lucretia as the role model for Roman girls.'''<ref name=":022">{{Cite journal|last=Wiseman|first=T.P.|date=1998|title=Roman Republic, Year One|journal=Greece and Rome|edition=1|volume=45|pages=19–26| doi=10.1093/gr/45.1.19 }}</ref>'''