List of rape victims from ancient history and mythology

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The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus by Rubens
The lock, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
The Story of Lucretia (1496-1504) by Sandro Botticelli; Lucretia's rape is on the left panel.

Rape is a common topic in history and mythology. A list of notable victims from history and mythology includes:

  • Leda from Greek mythology, raped by Zeus in the form of a swan[1]
  • Cassandra from Greek mythology; raped by Ajax the Lesser
  • Chrysippus from Greek mythology; raped by his tutor Laius
  • Antiope from Greek mythology; raped by Zeus
  • Persphone daughter of Demeter from Greek mythology; raped by Hades also in Roman mythology as the rape of Proserpina
  • Dinah from the Hebrew Bible; raped by a Canaanite prince and avenged by her brothers
  • Lucretia from Roman legend/history; raped by a prince, Sextus Tarquinius.[2]
  • Medusa from Greek mythology; raped by Poseidon
  • Philomela from Greek and Roman mythology; raped by her brother in law
  • Rindr from Norse mythology, raped by Odin in Saxo Grammaticus' version of the engendering of Baldr's avenger
  • Rogneda of Polotsk from Belarus/Scandinavian history; raped by Vladimir, half-brother of her betrothed Yaropolk I of Kiev, in the presence of her parents (10th century)
  • The Sabine women; raped by the founders of Rome according to its legendary history
  • Tamar from the Hebrew Bible; raped by her half-brother Amnon.
  • The daughters of Leucippus, Phoebe and Hilaeira, were abducted, raped and later married by Castor and Pollux. In return, Idas and Lynceus, nephews of Leucippus and rival suitors, killed Castor.50 [3]
  • Agnes of Rome, was a young girl of around 12 or 13 years of age, who consecrated her virginity to Christ, and was dragged to a brothel to be raped, in a bid to make her recant her Christian faith. Instead, many of the men who tried to molest her ended up being inflicted with blindness or even died.

References

  1. ↑ In some versions of the story, Zeus seduces Leda. In others, such as that retold in William Butler Yeats' "Leda and the Swan", he rapes her: Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ Klassiker: Gemälde, H. Johannsen, Gerstenberg, 2001, ISBN 380-672-516-0.
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