Arruns heads north, meets the Gauls, shows them the wonderful produce of the plains of Etruria, and entices them south. Once they arrived they proved to be less manageable than foolish Arruns had expected. Livy himself points out that ...
Poulsen considers that the primitive ornamentation is 'akin to that of Greek vase painting of the seventh century B.C. The pictures are purely decorative; animals and fabulous animals such as lions, sphinx, deer, and panthers fill the ...
Agnes Carr Vaughan . gering the gods . This was the line Roman tradition says Remus stepped over , and paid with his life for his fault . Men had followed closely after Romulus to watch the clods as they were turned up .
D. Ridgway, 'George Dennis and the Etruscans', Antiquity, 48 (1974), pp. 190–95; D. E. Rhodes, Dennis of Etruria: The Life of George Dennis (London, 1973). C. Denina, Delle rivoluzioni d'Italia libri ventiquattro (Rome, 1769).
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