 to the throne and how Lucius Tarquinius becomes the king and it is their son, Sextus, who assaults Lucretia. So what we're looking at is the foundation myth told from Lucretia's point of view and Tullius' point of view, remembering that Livy is doing this. Ovid gets involved here as well in telling a story in which the ending will be the success of the Romans to extricate themselves from wickedness.