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Where to See
Etruscan Rome
The Cloaca Maxima sewer still
functions, but there are few
other traces of Etruscan Rome.
Most finds come from Etruscan
sites outside Rome like
The Legend of the She-Wolf Tarquinia, with its tomb
The evil king of Alba threw his baby paintings of sumptuous
nephews, Romulus and Remus, into banquets (see p273), but there
the Tiber but they were washed are major collections in the Villa
ashore, and suckled by a she-wolf. Giulia (pp264–5) and Vatican
Museums (p236). The most
Raven, guardian
of the citadel famous object, however, is a
bronze statue of the legendary
she-wolf in the Capitoline
Museums (p73). The Anti-
quarium Forense (p89) displays
objects from the necropolis that
once occupied the site
of the Roman Forum.
Apollo of Veio
Etruscan culture and
religion were influenced
by the Greeks. This 5th-
or 6th-century statue
of the Greek god Apollo
comes from Veio and
is in the Villa Giulia
museum (see pp264–5).

Funeral urns shaped like huts
Tarquinius Superbus were used for cremation from
(Tarquin The Proud) the mid-8th century BC.

Etruscan jewellery, like this
7th-century BC gold filigree
The Legend of Aeneas brooch, was lavish. Treasures
Some Roman legends make of this kind have given the
the Trojan hero Aeneas Etruscans a reputation
the grandfather of Romulus for luxurious living.
and Remus.

600 BC Possible date of 565 BC Traditional date of the Servian
construction of Cloaca Wall around Rome’s seven hills 510 BC Temple of Jupiter
Maxima sewer consecrated on the
Capitoline hill
534 BC King Servius
murdered Statue of Jupiter
650 600 550 500
578 BC Servius
Tullius Etruscan king 507 BC War against Etruscans. Horatius
509 BC Lucius Junios Brutus defends wooden bridge across Tiber
expels Etruscans from Rome
616 BC Tarquinius Priscus, first Etruscan and founds the Republic
king. Forum and Circus Maximus established
L. J. Brutus

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