The Etruscan World (Routledge Worlds)

• Hilary Becker –

CONCLUSIONS

This chapter has been concerned with understanding the political system of Etruria, in so
far as it is known. Part of the toolkit for understanding this system is being aware of the
internal partitions within Etruria. We have considered the boundaries within the city-
state such as the cilth, methlum, and spura – these are boundaries that any priest would
have needed to know to perform augury but they clearly had great implications for the
political jurisdiction of magistrates. Awareness of the boundaries has, in turn, brought
out in relief the autonomy of the city-states and how they operated distinctly from one
another. In addition, we have also considered those times when broader Etruscan alliances
might have developed across the city-states.

NOTES

1 Cristofani 1984, 131–132.
2 Haynes 2000, 71; Torelli 2000, 201. ET Pa 1.2.
3 Verg. Aen. VII. 647; VIII. 482; X. 786–907 also Liv. 1.2. A kylix of impasto grigio dated
between 680–640 bce was inscribed with the name of Laucie Mezentie (lit. the cup reads
mi Laucies Mezenties). This cup probably came from Caere and confi rms that the gentilician
name, otherwise only known from a mythic Caeretan character in Roman mytho-history,
was one used in Caere (C. de Simone. 1991. “Etrusco Laucie Mezentie,” Arch Class 43:
559–73.
4 Paus. 5.12.5.
5 CIL XIII, 1668.
6 CIL XIII, 1668; Liv. 39.4–6; Dion. Hal. Ant. Rom. 4.1–2.
7 Heurgon 1964, 48.
8 Maggiani 2001a, 237; d’Aversa 1994, 33.
9 Ser. Aen. 2.278.
10 Liv. 1.34.
11 Macrob. Sat. 1.15.13.
12 Turfa 2006 and 2012.
13 Turfa 2006. For these events, see the prophecies for October 19th, November 16th, December
7th and 30th and January 16th and 21st; winter was apparently rough on monarchies.
14 TLE 873–874; ET Cr 4.4.
15 Migliorati 2003, 42.
16 Maggiani 1996, 102–5.
17 Liv. 4.17; Dion. Hal. Ant Rom. 12.5; Flor 1.2.9; Cic. Phil. 9.4; Plut. Rom. 16.
18 Liv. 5.1.
19 Torelli 1975, 56–92.
20 Torelli 1975, 82–92; Migliorati 2003, 42; Maggiani 2005, 63.
21 Heurgon 1964, 18; TLE 136.
22 TLE 324; Heurgon 1957, 83; Bonfante and Bonfante 2002, 97.
23 ET Vc 1.94; TLE 1.94; Cristofani 1984, 131–132; Maggiani 2001a, 237.
24 Morandi Tarabella 2004, 243; TLE 90 and 91.
25 Morandi Tarabella 2004, 243 and 319; TLE 84. This inscription (and the magistracy) dates
c. 380–370 bce.
26 Maggiani 2001a, 233–234.
27 Maggiani 2001a, 237. The inscription, an epitaph, is damaged at the crucial term: see Turfa
2005: 263–265 no. 295.
28 Heurgon 1964, 50.