The simplest way for the Romans to have known how long their republic had existed would have been to look at the list of consuls, of which two were elected every year, and simply count the number of consular pairs to impute that the republic had existed for however many years corresponded. Varronian year 344 corresponds to real year 340 BC). The specific dating to 509 BC emerges from the Varronian chronology, assembled during the late republic by Marcus Terentius Varro and later used by the fasti Capitolini, which likely – in the earlier period – runs four years behind the actual dates (i.e.
The most well known date for the establishment of the republic, and therefore, the expulsion of the kings, is 509 BC. Scholars and the ancient sources themselves disagree on when the monarchy was overthrown and how old the resulting republic was. Various scholars have dismissed aspects of the traditional story, from the historicity of almost all of its major characters to the overthrow's entire existence. There does not exist, however, any concrete evidence for or against it. Many modern scholars dismiss this narrative as fictitious. Despite a number of attempts by Lucius Tarquinius Superbus to reinstate the monarchy, the Roman people are successful in establishing a republic and thereafter elected two consuls annually to rule the city. The Roman army, supporting Brutus, forces the king into exile. The Roman noblemen, led by Lucius Junius Brutus, obtain the support of the Roman aristocracy and the people to expel the king and his family and create a republic. Upon revealing the assault to some Roman noblemen, she kills herself. The traditional narrative involves a dynastic struggle in which the king's second son, Sextus Tarquinius, rapes a noblewoman, Lucretia.
509 BC, but this narrative is largely believed to be fictitious by modern scholars.
The details of the event were largely forgotten by the Romans a few centuries later later Roman historians invented a narrative of the events, traditionally dated to c. The overthrow of the Roman monarchy was an event in ancient Rome that took place between the 6th and 5th centuries BC where a political revolution replaced the then-existing Roman monarchy under Lucius Tarquinius Superbus with a republic.
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