Rome, the Last King of Rome

The last king of rome is a guy named lucius tarquinus superbus, which is where we get the word superb. According to myth, his son rapes a roman noblewoman named lucretia m and this becomes a problem for him. After she was raped, lucretia made her husband and father swear an oath of vengeance against the tarquins and then killed herself in shame. Enraged by her death, junius brutus led a victorious rebellion against the etruscan king.