The bronze suckling wolf statue is vintage Roman Empire, hmm sez here actually Etruscan in origin, while the Romulus and Remus are more recent additions (Renaissance Italian). Looks like another legacy from the Etruscans; in high school I first read of them, in an article subtitles, “an historic people who left no history”.
seems to me that I’ve read that etruscans were a colony of greeks from the eastern medeterranian. I did a quick google search and came up with this.
In summary, there are two main theories about the origin of the Etruscans. The first is that they migrated from Anatolia. The second is that they were natives of Italy who gradually formed a distinctive culture. A supposed third theory — that they migrated from the north — never really existed. The Anatolian theory seems to have been the most popular one in ancient times. It was supported by many archaeologists in the early part of the 20th century due to the profound Anatolian influence seen among the Etruscans. However, this has now been dismissed as the result of trade and cultural influence. The migration was supposed to have occurred some five centuries before this Anatolian influence is seen among the Etruscans in the archaeology. Genetic evidence also supports continuity between the Etruscans and their precursors. Nonetheless, it is not impossible that a small migration did occur, only much later than the ancient Greeks believed.
https://www.thecollector.com/where-the-etruscans-come-from/
I have a better theory—which merges the two theories above. The greek attack on troy happens at the same time as the great bronze age collapse when the sea peoples invaded the near east. One of those peoples may have been the Tyrrhenians who were later called the Etruscans.
Here the point is not that the Lydians settled northern italy—but rather, during the sea people invasions— some Tyrrhenians from northern italy settled Lydia. And some Tyrrhenians stayed home to later become etruscans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_origins