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To: wildbill

I agree. It could be a coincidence, but it could also be a common family name, or it could be the one, the only, family of that protagonist. It’s unlikely that Vergil’s tale would have been accepted had it not been woven from existing threads. :’)


20 posted on 07/10/2008 8:00:54 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: SunkenCiv

It’s actually more than Vergil. His tale was the written exposition of claims from some Romans that they derived in direct line from Aeneas.

Once again, they could be simply inventing ancestors, but the tale was certainly in play among the Romans and the Etruscans.

By the way, didn’t we have a link/thread on the Etruscan claim to be the survivors of Troy?


22 posted on 07/10/2008 10:35:16 AM PDT by wildbill ( FR---changing history by erasing it from memory.)
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