Tarchon

Tarchon ( Latin , Etruscan Tarchun ; ancient Greek Τάρκων, Tárkōn ) was, according to ancient legends, the founder of several Etruscan cities.

Tarchon was the brother or son of Tyrrhenus . He had founded twelve cities, including Tarquinii ( Etruscan Tarchna ) and organized the Etruscan League of Twelve Cities .

He plowed the day , a grandson of Jupiter , out of the earth near Tarquinii . This taught Tarchon parts of the "Etruscan doctrine" ( Etrusca disciplina ), a doctrine about religious practices.

The name Tarchon is associated with the Hittite weather god Tarḫunna .

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• Servius : Aen. 10.179, 198
• Strabo : Geographika 5,2,2
• Livy 5.33.9
• Johannes Lydos : de ostentis 3

Books

• The new Pauly . Volume 12/ 1 ; Tarchon