Re: Vanir

From: malmqvist52
Message: 11819
Date: 2001-12-16

Tanais was apparently from:Clement of Alexandria, Exhortations to the
Greeks 43.]
From the same book:
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TANAQUIL was a woman of the highest nobility in Tarquinii in Etruria.
She married Lucumo, a son of Demaratus, a Corinthian of the noble
family of Bacchiadae. He had inherited the great wealth of his father
but found that he and his wife were excluded from any promise of
power or influence because of the alien status of his father.
Tanaquil influenced him to move to Rome, where he might have a better
chance of distinction, and they set out with a large retinue. When
they came within sight of Rome, an eagle seized Lucumo's cap, carried
it very high in the heavens, then returned and placed it once again
on his head. Tanaquil, skilled in augury, predicted the highest honor
for her husband from this omen. True enough, Lucumo was accorded a
high-ranking position by the Romans and eventually succeeded to the
throne under the name of Tarquinius Priscus, the fifth king of Rome.
Tanaquil bore him two sons and two daughters, all of whom married
into noble families. One son, Tarquinius Superbus, succeeded his
father. Tanaquil, more formally known as Caecilia, was later
connected with the worship centered around the hearth and domestic
life. [Livy 1.34-41; Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities
3.46-73, 4.1; Plutarch, Roman Questions 271.]
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Best wishes
Anders
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> Anders