Tarchetius
Tarchetius ( Greek Ταρχέτιος Tarchetios ) was a mythical king of Alba Longa .
Usually Romulus and Remus , the legendary founders of Rome , were considered the grandsons of King Numitor . Promathion , the author of a history of Italy, handed down a different version, perhaps from the 6th century BC. BC dates:
A phallus rose from the hearth of Tarchetius . An Etruscan oracle advised him to let a virgin associate with the phallus, then she would give birth to a glorious son. Tarchetius ordered one of his daughters to attend the phallus, but instead she sent a servant who became pregnant. When Tarchetius found out about this, he wanted to have both women killed, but the goddess Vesta forbade him in a dream. After the servant gave birth to the twins Romulus and Remus, Tarchetius ordered a certain Teratius to kill the children. Teratius abandoned them by a river, where they were suckled by a she-wolf and rescued and raised by a shepherd. When they grew up, they rose up against Tarchetius and defeated him.
literature
- Luciana Aigner-Foresti : Tarchetios. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12/1, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01482-7 , column 24.
- Gerhard Radke : Tarchetios. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 5, Stuttgart 1975, column 518.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Promathion, FGrH 817 F 1 at Plutarch , Romulus 2, which discards the forecast as too fab.
- ↑ Luciana Aigner-Foresti : Tarchetios. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12/1, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01482-7 , column 24.