Question

How are the various Italian peoples (Latins, Arcadians, Volscians) depicted, in relation to the Trojans and to each other?

Answer 1

The various Italian peoples are relatives of the Trojans. Archeology shows the arrival from very early dates of different peoples, due to the strategic situation of Italy in the center of the Mediterranean. At the end of the second millennium, a wave of tribes of Indo-European origin arrived and mixed with the native communities. In the north settled the Celts, Venetians and Ligurians and in the center and south Umbrian, Oscos, Sabines, Volscians, Ecuos, Latins and Samnites. Shortly after they penetrated two towns of greater cultural and economic development dedicated mainly to the crafts and to the commerce, the Etruscans, coming from Asia Minor, and finally the Greeks.