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To: VadeRetro

I think (perhaps wrongly) that Claudius was of Etruscan stock. (Would that be I Claudius as opposed to II Claudius? We are talking about Graves though.)


33 posted on 11/08/2004 10:28:50 AM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
Don't remember that detail, but I loved that miniseries. There's no question the Etruscans were absorbed rather than wiped out by Rome.
35 posted on 11/08/2004 10:33:49 AM PST by VadeRetro (A self-reliant conservative citizenry is a better bet than the subjects of an overbearing state. -MS)
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