Between the VIII ^E and the III ^E front century J. - C., the Etruscan civilization, hatched in central Italy, shone of a sharp glare and its field extended from the plain of Po at the Campania; it was the teacher of Rome before being built-in at the Roman State, which preserved the heritage of it.

Various names of the Etruscans

Few old civilizations raised as much curiosity than Etruscan civilization, and there remains around it a halation of legend and mystery. The most contradictory assumptions were put forth on the origins of the Etruscans and their vision of the world.

That starts with their name. Tusci, Etruri or Etrusci according to the Romans, who would have thus deformed the name that the Greeks gave them: Tyrsênoi or Tyrrhênoi. But the Etruscans themselves were called, seem it, Rasena, name of their first chief according to the ones, or of people of alive North in the rhetic Alps according to others, or term meaning “the men simply”.