Tanaquil
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- Series: Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Government and Politics, Women’s Issues, Royalty, Rulers, Nobility
- Subcategories: Kings, Queens, Kingdoms, Monarchy, Aristocracy, Aristocrats, Nobles
- Curriculum: Women’s History, Western Civilization/European History, Ancient History
Article abstract: Etruscan aristocrat; wife of King Tarquin the First of Rome{$I[g]Roman Republic;Tanaquil} Tanaquil, an Etruscan aristocrat, participated in the making of two Roman kings.
Early Life
Virtually nothing is known of Tanaquil (TAN-ah-kwihl) before she married Lucumo, a half-Etruscan and half-Greek man from Corinth, renamed Lucius Tarquinius Priscus and known in history as Tarquin the First, the first Etruscan king of the Romans. The accounts of her in literature, however, allow one to suppose that she had an aristocratic upbringing and...
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