Re: On the origin of the Etruscans

From: tgpedersen
Message: 47590
Date: 2007-02-24

> Considering the jumble of historical nuggets sent through the food
> processor with lots of fiction, the idea that there really
> were "Aeneas-people" emigrating to Rome is not entirely implausible,
> with the whole jumble re-interpreted from an Italic-based
> sensibility which moved down Italy from the North.

Also, Vergil was himself from Tuscany. Who knows what he heard there?


Torsten