- Vincent Jolivet –
Rome, and colonized; the survivors were enrolled in four new urban tribes, thus creating
a tremendous economic boom for Rome. The treatment of Veii and the revelation of
the danger represented by the Roman army led to a sudden realization on the part of
other Etruscan cities, and resulted in a little over a century of new confl icts. The nearest
neighbor of Rome, Ceisra-Caere, seized the opportunity offered by the Gaulish raid of
390 to move closer to Rome by hiding behind its walls Rome’s Vestals and sacred objects.
We fi nd it, however, in 353, alongside Tarquinia in a war, after which Caere and Rome
signed a truce (indutiae) of 100 years (Fig. 8.2). Soon after, the city entered the orbit of
Figure 8.1 Found in the votive deposit of the Campetti sanctuary at Veii, this terracotta represents
Aeneas carrying Anchises, which shows, in the fourth century, that the ideological association between
the conquest of the city and that of Troy were still familiar to the residents of the area (Rome, Villa
Giulia; Camporeale 2004, Fig. 184).Figure 8.2 The recent excavations of Cerveteri have revealed the presence of a public, subterranean
complex that was decorated with paintings and dated by the mention of the Roman praetor of Caere,
C. Genucius Clepsina, consul in 276 and 270 (Cristofani 1984, p. 58).