Editing Tarpeian Rock (section)

==In fiction==
* The Tarpeian Rock is briefly mentioned in Act Three, Scene Three of the Shakespeare tragedy ''[[Coriolanus]]''. In lines 87–90, [[Gaius Marcius Coriolanus|Coriolanus]] warns: 
<blockquote>"Let them pronounce the steep Tarpeian death,/
Vagabond exile, flaying, pent to linger/
But with a grain a day; I would not buy/
Their mercy at the price of one fair word."</blockquote>
In lines 99–104, [[Lucius Sicinius Vellutus|Sicinius Velutus]] gives judgment:
<blockquote>"we/ Even from this instant, banish him our city,/
In peril of precipitation/
From off the rock Tarpeian, never more/
To enter our Rome gates."</blockquote>
* In [[Miguel de Cervantes]]'s ''[[Don Quixote]]'' The image of Nero watching the burning of Rome is related to the fires of passion. In Part 1, Chapter 14 Ambrosio accuses Marcela of being a cruel Nero. In Part 2, Chapter 44, Altisidora accuses Don Quixote of being a new Nero who watches her burn with love from the Tarpeian Rock: "No mires de tu Tarpeya / este incendio que me abrasa / Neron manchego del mundo."<ref>[[Frederick A. de Armas]], "To See What Men Cannot: Teichoskopia in ''Don Quixote'' I" ''Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America'' 28.1 (2008), pp. 83-102.</ref>
* In ''[[Asterix and the Laurel Wreath]]'', the jailer at the Circus Maximus remarks to Asterix and Obelix that, while they are getting a gourmet feast leading up to the day they are thrown to the lions: "Those who are thrown from the Tarpeian Rock are given solid, heavy food."
* In [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]]'s ''[[The Marble Faun]]'', a character is murdered by another character by being thrown from the Tarpeian Rock.
* Canto IX of Purgatory of the ''[[Divine Comedy]]'' by [[Dante Alighieri]] has a reference to the Tarpeian Rock. When Metellusus yielded to [[Julius Caesar]], the rock, close by, was said to creak when the door to the treasury was opened. The symbolic meaning is obvious as Caesar was criticized for robbing the public treasury of Roman Republic.
* In the HBO TV series ''[[Rome (TV series)|Rome]]'', Julius Caesar refers to the site while trying to motivate his soldiers to march to Rome in opposition to the Senate.
* In ''[[A Capitol Death]]'' by [[Lindsey Davis]], three deaths involve falls from the Tarpeian Rock.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Davis |first1=Lindsey |title=A Capitol Death |date=2019 |publisher=Hodder & Stoughton |isbn=978-1-473-65874-5}}</ref>
* The Tarpeian Cliff is mentioned multiple times in ''[[I, Claudius]]'' by [[Robert Graves]], as a place of execution by hurling over the edge.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Graves |first1=Robert |title=I, Claudius |date= |publisher=Arthur Barker |year=1934 |isbn=978-0679724773 |pages=283,335}}</ref>
* In [[The Cantos]], [[Ezra Pound]] includes reference to the 'Rupe Tarpeia' in "Notes for CXVII etc seq.": "Under the Rupe Tarpeia/ weep out your jealousies--/ To make a church/ or an altar to Zagreus/ Son of Semele/ Without jealousy/ like the double arch of a window/ Or some great colonnade."