V O R T R A G – vor Ort (SE 12)
Di, 19. März 2024, 18 Uhr s. t.
Roman Roth (Classics Section, School of Languages and Literatures, University of Cape Town, South Africa)
The southern Etruscan city of Tarquinia (etr. Tarchna/lat. Tarquninii) is known both for its location and for its archaeological evidence and inscriptions, thus offering a rare insight into a non-Roman context of central Italian city states. In this lecture, the ambitious territorial expansion of Tarquinia in the late 5th and 4th century BCE will be discussed. It also deals with Tarquinia’s failure, which can only be inadequately and at best indirectly explained by the rise of Rome.
