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TARQUINII (Ancient city) ETROURIA
Demaratus (Demaratos), a merchant-noble of Corinth, and one of the Bacchiadae.
When the power of his clan had been overthrown by Cypselus. about B. C. 657, he
fled from Corinth, and settled at Tarquinii in Etruria, where he had mercantile
connexions. According to Strabo, he brought with him a large body of retainers
and much treasure, and thereby gained such influence, that he was made ruler of
Tarquinii. He is said also to have been accompanied by the painter Cleophantus
of Corinth, and by Eucheir and Eugrammus, masters of the plastic arts, and together
with these refinements, to have even introduced the knowledge of alphabetical
writing into Etruria. He married an Etrurian wife, by whom he had two sons, Aruns
and Lucumo, afterwards L. Tarquinius Priscus (Liv. i. 34; Dionys. iii. 46; Polb.
vi. 2; Strab. v, viii.; Cic. Tasc. Quaest. v. 37; Tac. Ann. xi. 14; Plin. H. N.
xxxv. 3, 12; Niebuhr, Rom. Hist. i.). For the Greek features pervading the story
of the Tarquins, see Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome.
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Nov 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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