"Originally based on the Roman fable The Rape of the Sabine Women which 1954 musical contains the songs ""Bless Your Beautiful Hide"" and ""Spring, Spring, Spring"" ?"
The Rape of the Sabine Women the "Rape of the Sabine Women" (1962–63), one of which is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. These are based on David's version. These conflate the beginning and end of the story, depicting the brutish Romulus and Tatius ignoring and trampling on the exposed figure of Hersilia and her child. Charles Christian Nahl painted the subject in a trio of works entitled "The Abduction", "The Captivity", and "The Invasion". Stephen Vincent Benét wrote a short story called "The Sobbin' Women" that parodied the legend. Later adapted into the musical "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers", it tells the story of
The Rape of the Sabine Women descended from Tubal, and the Roman Kittim (). A more detailed version of this narrative is found in the earlier mediaeval rabbinic work "Yosippon". In 1962, a Spanish "sword and sandal" film based on the story was made, directed by Alberto Gout. Titled "El Rapto de las Sabinas," the film was released in the USA under the titles "The Rape of the Sabine Women" and "The Shame of the Sabine Women." The latest adaptation is a video film, "The Rape of the Sabine Women" without dialogue, which was produced in 2005 by Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation. Tom Stoppard's