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[...]she is by nature dead: "I died long ago, / Then when I gave my life to save the dead" (Sophocles 11. [...]to Lacan, atê is the domain of desolation "between the two deaths": while she dies first to the Symbolic, she also dies an "actual death" at the end of the play (Zizek 22). According to Livy, Sextus Tarquinius forces Lucretia to acquiesce to his advances by threatening to kill both her and his slave and then to place them side by side in bed, thus destroying her reputation as a paragon of domestic virtue: "At this dreadful prospect her resolute modesty was overcome, as if with force, by his victorious lust" (Livy 201). [...]more than Brutus's secret intelligence, the "Story of Lucius Junius Brutus" tells the tale of another hidden life: that which a coterie of friends live out one summer at the country home of his aunt, the Roman lady Racilia. [...]hidden within this history, ostensibly about Brutus, is the story of Lucretia and her love for Brutus. Because of his hatred for the Tarquinii, he had assumed a mask and, because of his love for Lucrèce, he had been torn between public and civic action on the one hand and private love and desire on the other.