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El Rapto de las Sabinas (English Translation: The Rape of the Sabine Women) is a 1962 historical drama film adaptation of the Roman foundation myth about the abduction of Sabine women by the Romans shortly after the foundation of the city of Rome (probably in the 750s BC).
English. Il ratto delle sabine (English: The Rape of the Sabines) is an Italian adventure comedy film from 1961, directed by Richard Pottier, written by Edoardo Anton, starring Mylène Demongeot, Roger Moore and Jean Marais. The scenario was based on a novel of André Castelot. [1]
Titus Tatius, king of the Sabines, plots revenge, and after 2 years of building an army, the Sabines march into Rome. The bloody battle is stopped by the Sabine women, who reveal that they have grown to love their Roman captors and now fight along with their husbands to repel the onslaught.
- Alberto Gout
- Lex Johnson
22 feb 2007 · Drama. Re-envisioning the myth as a 1960's period piece with the Romans cast as G-men, the Sabines as butchers' daughters, and the heyday of Rome allegorically implied in an affluent international style summer house, this version is a riff on the original story of abduction and interven... Read all.
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Abduction of the Sabine women
According to Roman historian Livy, the abduction of Sabine women occurred in the early history of Rome shortly after its founding in the mid-8th century BC and was perpetrated by Romulus and his predominantly male followers; it is said that after the foundation of the city, the population consisted solely of Latins and other Italic peoples, in particular male bandits. With Rome growing at such a steady rate in comparison to its neighbors, Romulus became concerned with maintaining the city's s...
War with the Sabines and other tribes
Outraged at what had happened, the king of the Caeninenses entered upon Roman territory with his army. Romulus and the Romans met the Caeninenses in battle, killed their king, and routed their army. Romulus later attacked Caenina and took it upon the first assault. Returning to Rome, he dedicated a Temple of Jupiter Feretrius (according to Livy, the first temple dedicated in Rome) and offered the spoils of the enemy king as spolia opima. According to the Fasti TriumphalesRomulus celebrated a...
The motivation behind the abduction of the Sabine women is contested among ancient sources. Livy writes that Rome's motivation for abducting the Sabine women was solely to increase the city's population and claims that no direct sexual assault took place during the abduction. Livy says that Romulus offered the Sabine women free choice as well as ci...
Many treatments of the legend combined a suitably inspiring example of the hardiness and courage of ancient Romans with the opportunity to depict multiple figures, including heroically semi-nude figuresin intensely passionate struggle. The subject was popular during the Renaissance as symbolising the importance of marriage for the continuity of fam...
Ancient works
The episode of the Rape of the Sabine Women is recounted by Cicero, Livy, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Plutarch. The poetry of Ovid also contains several allusions to this episode and it is included on the shield of Aeneas in Virgil's Aeneid.
Modern works
The Sabine women are mentioned in Canto VI of Dante's Paradiso. The midrash Sefer haYashar (first attested in 1624) portrays the story as part of a war between the Sabines, descended from Tubal, and the Roman Kittim (Jasher 17:1–15). A more detailed version of this narrative is found in the earlier mediaeval rabbinic work Yosippon. The story was parodied by Lady Carlotta, the mischief-making character in Saki's short story "The Schartz-Metterklume Method". Stephen Vincent Benét wrote a short...
Scholars have cited parallels between the Rape of the Sabine Women, the Æsir–Vanir War in Norse mythology, and the Iliad of Greek mythology, providing support for a Proto-Indo-European "war of the functions". Regarding these parallels, J. P. Mallorystates:
The Rape of the Sabine Women(1962 film)Ancient sources
1. Livy, Ab urbe condita, Book 1, 9–13 (Latin), Book 1 9–13(English)
Modern sources
1. Michael Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage, Cambridge University Press, 1974–2001. 2. Walter Friedlaender, Nicolas Poussin: A New Approach(New York: Abrams), 1964. 3. Mallory, J. P (2005). In Search of the Indo-Europeans. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-27616-1 4. Pope-Hennessy, John, Italian High Renaissance & Baroque Sculpture, London: Phaidon, 1996.
The Rape of the Sabines: Directed by Alberto Gout. With Lorena Velázquez, Alex Johnson, Tere Velázquez, Wolf Ruvinskis. The Sabine tribe battles Romulus in the early days of Rome after Romans seize their women as unwilling brides.
20 mar 2008 · The wolf makes several appearances in The Rape of the Sabine Women (2006), a film by Eve Sussman & The Rufus Corporation. In early moments, the wolf lounges in the Pergamon Museum’s courtyard; later she sidles through the museum and appears in the aftermath of the story.
