Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu.

In Etruscan mythology, he is known as Aivas Tlamunus.

In Greek mythology, Daedalus ( Latin, also Hellenized Latin Daedalos, Greek Daidalos () meaning " cunning worker ", and Etruscan Taitale ) was a skillful craftsman and artisan.

The engravings, mainly cameo, but sometimes intaglio, depict scarabs at first and then scenes from Greek mythology, often with heroic personages called out in Etruscan.

The topos of Heracles suckling at Hera's breast was especially popular in Magna Graecia, here on a mid-4th century Apulia n painted vase ; Etruscan mythology adopted this iconic image

In Roman mythology, Leto's equivalent is Latona, a Latinization of her name, influenced by Etruscan Letun.

Extrapolating from her Roman nature, it is assumed that in Etruscan mythology, Minerva was the goddess of wisdom, war, art, schools and commerce.

In Greek mythology, the Minotaur (,, Etruscan Θevrumineś ), was a creature with the head of a bull on the body of a man or, as described by Roman poet Ovid, " part man and part bull ".

The name of the sea-god Nethuns in Etruscan was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology ; both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon.

According to Roman mythology, when Romulus and Remus founded Rome, they did so on the Palatine Hill according to Etruscan ritual ; that is, they began with a pomerium or sacred ditch.

* Etruscan mythology

In his earliest forms, he appears to have been related to the Etruscan deity Turms, but most of his characteristics and mythology were borrowed from the analogous Greek god, Hermes.

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The body of Patroclus is lifted by Menelaus and Meriones ( mythology ) | Meriones while Odysseus and others look on ( Etruscan relief, 2nd century BC )

In Greek mythology, Icarus ( the Latin spelling, conventionally adopted in English ;, Íkaros, Etruscan: Vikare ) is the son of the master craftsman Daedalus.

Leland speculated that this folklore ultimately had roots in ancient Etruscan mythology.

She was originally derived from Etruscan mythology.

* Feronia ( mythology ), a goddess of fertility in Roman and Etruscan mythology

In Roman mythology, Mezentius was an Etruscan king, and father of Lausus.

Much of Etruscan religion and mythology became part of classical Roman culture, including the Roman pantheon.

The mythology is evidenced by a number of sources in different media ; for example, representations on large numbers of pottery, inscriptions and engraved scenes on the Praenestine cistae ( ornate boxes ; see under Etruscan language ) and on specula ( ornate hand mirrors ).

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Category: Etruscan mythology

Category: Etruscan mythology

Versnel conjectured that it was associated with the annual meeting of the Etruscan league, and that Nortia's consort could have been Voltumna, the counterpart of Roman Vortumnus.

The last ten pages of this paper contain a highly technical discussion of the identity of the Etruscan god Voltumna in relation to the Latin gods Vertumnus and Janus.

At the moment he was excited about his son's having received the Prix De Rome in archaeology and was looking forward to being present this summer at the excavation of an Etruscan tomb.

Since some of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to the goddess Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her equivalent Greek goddess name Aphrodite ( Aphros ), or from the Etruscan name Apru.

In Etruscan legend, he was known as Aivas Vilates.

An early image of winged Daedalus appears on an Etruscan jug of ca 630 BC found at Cerveteri, where a winged figure captioned Taitale appears on one side of the vessel, paired on the other side, uniquely, with Metaia, Medea: " its linking of these two mythical figures is unparalleled ," Robin Lane Fox observes: " The link was probably based on their wondrous, miraculous art.

The Etruscan language was spoken and written by the Etruscan civilization, in what is present-day Italy, in the ancient region of Etruria ( modern Tuscany plus western Umbria and northern Latium ) and in parts of Lombardy, Veneto, and Emilia-Romagna ( where the Etruscans were displaced by Gauls ).

Etruscan was superseded completely by Latin, leaving only a few documents and some loanwords in Latin, such as persona ( from Etruscan φersu ), and some place-names, such as Roma.

Etruscan literacy was widespread over the Mediterranean shores, as evidenced by about 13, 000 inscriptions ( dedications, epitaphs, etc.

The last person known to have been able to read Etruscan was the Roman emperor Claudius ( 10 BC – AD 54 ), the author of a treatise in twenty volumes on the Etruscans, Tyrrenikà ( now lost ), who compiled a dictionary ( also lost ) by interviewing the last few elderly rustics who still spoke the language.

Urgulanilla, the emperor's first wife, was Etruscan.

The single extant Etruscan book, Liber Linteus, which was written on linen, survived only because it was used as mummy wrappings.

Bonfante, a leading scholar in the field, says "... it resembles no other language in Europe or elsewhere ...." The ancients were aware that Etruscan was an isolate.

In the 1st century BC, the Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus stated that the Etruscan language was unlike any other.

In 1861, Robert Ellis proposed that Etruscan was related to Armenian, which is nowadays acknowledged as an Indo-European language.

The Latin script owes its existence to the Etruscan alphabet, which was adapted for Latin in the form of the Old Italic alphabet.

The Etruscan alphabet employs a Euboean variant of the Greek alphabet using the letter digamma and was in all probability transmitted through Pithecusae and Cumae, two Euboean settlements in southern Italy.

The main material repository of Etruscan civilization, from the modern perspective, was its tombs.

In this function, it was borrowed in the 8th century BC by the Etruscan and other Old Italic alphabets, which were based on the Euboean form of the Greek alphabet.

The factory was so-named after the Etruria district of Italy, where black porcelain dating to Etruscan times was being excavated.