13 Facts About Tarquinius Superbus

Lucius Tarquinius Superbus was the legendary seventh and final king of Rome, reigning 25 years until the popular uprising that led to the establishment of the Roman Republic.

Tarquinius Superbus is commonly known as Tarquin the Proud, from his cognomen Superbus .

Tarquinius Superbus's reign has been described as a tyranny that justified the abolition of the monarchy.

Tarquinius Superbus's came to despise him, and conspired with Tarquin to bring about the deaths of Tullia Major and Arruns.

Tarquinius Superbus bestowed presents upon them, and spread criticism of Servius the king.

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Tarquinius Superbus went to the senate house with a group of armed men, sat himself on the throne, and summoned the senators to attend upon him.

Tarquinius Superbus made a powerful ally when he betrothed his daughter to Octavius Mamilius of Tusculum, among the most eminent of the Latin chiefs.

Tarquinius Superbus celebrated a triumph, and with the spoils of this conquest, he commenced the erection of the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, which Tarquin the Elder had vowed.

Tarquinius Superbus then engaged in a war with Gabii, one of the Latin cities that had rejected the treaty with Rome.

Tarquinius Superbus constructed tiers of seats in the circus, and ordered the excavation of Rome's great sewer, the cloaca maxima.

Tarquinius Superbus's then offered him the remaining books, but at the same price.

The Roman army was led by the dictator Albus Postumius Albus and his Master of the Horse, Titus Aebutius Elva, while the elderly king and his last remaining son, Titus Tarquinius Superbus, accompanied by a force of Roman exiles, fought alongside the Latins.

Tarquinius Superbus is depicted as a zombie king who attacks the demigods for trying to rewrite the Sybilline Books.