Archaeologists May Have Found What Was Once The Biggest City In Italy

The Economist ^ | 11-4-2004

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Enterprise]

I heard they found the ancestral home of Chef Boyrdee.

[Verginius Rufus]

Great stuff. I hope they find the tomb also of Gaius Mucius, who tried to assassinate Porsena and showed his bravery, when he was caught, by putting his right hand into the fire. He got the nickname Scaevola ("Lefty") as a result.

[GOP_NJ]

Its all a lie.. Karl rove is trying to change the subject! He doesnt want us to look into the voter fraud!!

/ping ;)

[claudiustg]

So, this Lars Porsena was a corrupt Dem power broker, that tried to muscle in on the Republicans in Rome, but they were to strong for him and pushed him back out to the periphery.

[Cicero]

I
LARS Porsena of Clusium
By the Nine Gods he swore
That the great house of Tarquin
Should suffer wrong no more.
By the Nine Gods he swore it,
And named a trysting day,
And bade his messengers ride forth,
East and west and south and north,
To summon his array.


II

East and west and south and north
The messengers ride fast,
And tower and town and cottage
Have heard the trumpet’s blast.
Shame on the false Etruscan
Who lingers in his home,
When Porsena of Clusium
Is on the march for Rome.


. . . . Horatius put a stop to that!

[Paladin2]

Lars? Italian? Roman? sounds like a Scandinavian who took a Italian vacation tour and decided to stay.

[SunkenCiv]

Ooooh. Thanks for the ping! The description of Lars' tomb, though ancient and eyewitness testimony, is generally considered to be an exaggeration. But General Consideration often leads the troops away from the action. :')

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[eagle11]

Yes, near the ruins of Abadanza.

[ezo4]

what is ggg ping? Is it a ancient history type ping or no? If so ad me to it please

[claudiustg]

I guess he was a northern Italian.

[Enterprise]

"Yes, near the ruins of Abadanza."

Oh, I read about that area once. It's the sister city of Abba Zabba.

[Paladin2]

E's pining for the fjords, all the time.

[Ptarmigan]

Interesting. I know the Roman Empire was first estbalished in 753 BC. I heard that the Romans came from the Etruscans originally. Some say Basque is related to Etruscan language.

[blam]

"what is ggg ping? Is it a ancient history type ping or no? If so add me to it please"

GGG stands for Gods, Graves, Glyphs and is an archaeology,anthropology and ancient history ping list. It is managed by FReeper SunkenCiv.

He will add you to the ping list.

[ezo4]

thanks pal :o)

[VadeRetro]

Interesting. I know the Roman Empire was first estbalished in 753 BC. I heard that the Romans came from the Etruscans originally. Some say Basque is related to Etruscan language.

The date sounds crudely right, but Rome was a Kingdom, then a Republic, then an Empire. The first transition is described in the article, the second occurred after the assassination of Julius Caesar and a complicated civil war in the last century BC.

It's unlikely that the Romans sprung from Etruscan stock. Latin is an Indoeuropean language with similarities to Greek, Celtic, and even Sanskrit. Etruscan is a language isolate, apparently unrelated to anything so far known (including Basque). Only about 300 words of Etruscan have been deciphered, mostly related to funerals and monuments.

The best guess would be that the Etruscans were a remnant of some earlier inhabitants of the Italian peninsula. The Romans probably arrived from the East in later waves of immigration at crudely the same time as the Greeks and Celts.

[Ptarmigan]

Etruscan is a mysterious language, like Basque or Bushushaski.