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Thread: Etruria ... more
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Message: Trojans, Romans, Greeks and Etruscans
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Author: * Tanaquil Sergius - 319 Posts
Date: Jul 16, 2002 - 12:12

I am looking for that special old syllabus in my library, where an etruscologist put a schematic analysis of the wall paintings in the Tomba Francois in Vulci. The man who was buried there (probably together with some ancestors and decendants) had painted on one wall a fight during the Trojan War between Greeks and Trojans and on the other wall a historic fight between Romans and Etruscans (see the names Macstrna, probably Servius Tullius, one of the kings of Rome, and Tarchunies Rumach, one of the Roman kings called Tarquinius, probably Tarquinius Superbus) In fact, both Macstrna and Tarchunies were of partial Etruscan, partial Greek descent: the Tarquinii were said to have descended from an Etruscan, whose father was Corinthian of origin, and Etruscan noble women, from the city of Tarchuna or Tarquinia. Sometimes, archaeologists think that the Etruscans felt very much connected with the Greeks, so that the Etruscans in the second fighting scene in the tomb connect with the Greeks in the first fighting scene, and that they, as the Latin Romans did themselves, connnected the Romans with the Trojans. Maybe there is also a probability that the Vulcenter(i.e. Etruscan) man who was buried in this grave had a special connection with the Greeks (maybe some Greek blood in his veins) and that the connection with Greeks wasn't that special to the Etruscans, apart from an economic one ( and therefore in many aspects a cultural one), but only special to this family. But I'll agree that the Etruscans'liking of Greek pieces of art was great and famous......
And also that the Etruscans of Tarquinia probably excommunicated Greeks out of their city, when they started to play a too big role. Tarquinius Priscus, Demaratos'son, and his wife Tanaquil were excommunicated from Tarquinia and then travelled southward and came to Rome, as Livy writes in his A.U.C.

Tanaquil

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