Venetokratía in Greek.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Venetocracy
Ancient Rome was Italian not Greek. The roots of this civilization though goes back to ancient Greece and Magna Graecia. I go by the historical references stating Etruscans came from Asia Minor and Lesbos island of the Aegean and were Pelasgians, or at least the core and a big part of them.
Etruscan civilization
The latter gave way in the 7th century BC to a culture that was influenced by Ancient Greek culture, during the Archaic (Orientalizing period), and later the Classical period.
Archaic Greece had a huge influence on their art and architecture, and Greek mythology was evidently very familiar to them.
Origins
The origins of the Etruscans are mostly lost in prehistory, although Greek historians as early as the 5th century BC repeatedly associated the Tyrrhenians (Turrhēnoi/Τυρρηνοί, Tursēnoi/Τυρσηνοί) with Pelasgians, which could both be broad descriptive terms. Strabo[20] and the Homeric Hymn to Dionysus[21] make mention of the Tyrrhenians as pirates.[22] Thucydides,[23] Herodotus[24] and Strabo[25] all denote Lemnos as settled by Pelasgians, whom Thucydides identifies as "belonging to the Tyrrhenians" (τὸ δὲ πλεῖστον Πελασγικόν, τῶν καὶ Λῆμνόν ποτε καὶ Ἀθήνας Τυρσηνῶν). Although both Strabo and Herodotus[26] agree that Tyrrhenus / Tyrsenos, son of Atys, king of Lydia, led the migration, Strabo[25] specifies that it was the Pelasgians of Lemnos and Imbros who followed Tyrrhenus to the Italian Peninsula. A link between Lemnos and the Tyrrhenians was further manifested by the discovery of the Lemnos Stele, whose inscriptions were written in a language which shows strong structural resemblances to the language of the Etruscans.[27] This has led to the suggestion of a "Tyrrhenian language group" comprising Etruscan, Lemnian, and the Raetic spoken in the Alps.
According to another source a group of Greek traders from Euboea (Evvoia) went to Campania on 770 BC where they settled at Ischia and in Cumae and traded with local people. Over time, these Greeks were assimilated into these local people.[28]
Hellanicus of Lesbos records a Pelasgian migration from Thessaly to the Italian peninsula, noting that "the Pelasgi made themselves masters of some of the lands belonging to the Umbri".[29]
Etruscan League
According to legend,[41] there was a period between 600 BC and 500 BC in which an alliance was formed among twelve Etruscan settlements, known today as the Etruscan League, Etruscan Federation, or Dodecapolis (in Greek Δωδεκάπολις). The league was mostly an economic and religious league, or a loose confederation, similar to the Greek states.
Religion
The Greek heroes taken from Homer also appear extensively in art motifs.
Architecture
Relatively little is known about the architecture of the ancient Etruscans. They adapted the native Italic styles with influence from the external appearance of Greek architecture.
Ancient Roman architecture began with Etruscan styles, and then accepted still further Greek influence.
Art
Bucchero wares in black were the early and native styles of fine Etruscan pottery. There was also a tradition of elaborate Etruscan vase painting, which sprung from its Greek equivalent; the Etruscans were the main export market for Greek vases.
Literature
Etruscan texts, written in a space of seven centuries, use a form of the Greek alphabet due to close contact between the Etruscans and the Greek colonies at Pithecusae and Cumae in the 8th century BC (until it was no longer used, at the beginning of the 1st century AD).
Etruscan imaginative literature is evidenced only in references by later Roman authors, but it is evident from their visual art that the Greek myths were well-known
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_civilization
Etruscan alphabet
The Etruscan alphabet apparently derives from the Western Greek alphabet used in the Greek colonies in southern Italy. Several Old Italic scripts, including the Latin alphabet, derived from it (or simultaneously with it).
The Etruscan alphabet apparently originated as an adaptation of the Western Greek alphabet used by the Euboean Greeks in their first colonies in Italy, the island of Pithekoussai and the city of Cumae in Campania.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_alphabet
Etruscan Bronze Warrior
Etruscan warfare seems to have initially followed Greek principles and the use of hoplites – wearing a bronze breastplate, Corinthian helmet, greaves for the legs, and a large circular shield – deployed in the static phalanx formation,
Etruscan Temple Model
https://www.ancient.eu/Etruscan_Civilization/
Originally Posted by Stotnik369
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