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** The Rape of Persephone/Rape of the Sabine Women, popular topics in Renaissance art. The Greek word 'rape' shares its root with 'rapture' and essentially means abduction/kidnapping; this is also why ''Literature/TheRapeOfTheLock'' has that title (the plot revolves around a suitor stealing a lock of a woman's hair for his StalkerShrine).

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** The Rape of Persephone/Rape of the Sabine Women, popular topics in Renaissance art. The Greek word 'rape' shares its root with 'rapture' and essentially means abduction/kidnapping; this is also why ''Literature/TheRapeOfTheLock'' has that title (the plot revolves around a suitor stealing a lock of a woman's hair for his StalkerShrine). No one is raped in the modern sense in these stories, only kidnapped.

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