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The Etruscan

by Mika Waltari

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Early fifth century BCE. Turms, an exile searching for his origins, begins a wandering life in the Greek world as the Persian invasion reshapes the eastern Mediterranean.

His journeys lead through Greece and Sicily to Rome and Etruria, involving him in war, piracy, trade, politics and religious mystery. As Turms moves between Greek cities, Carthaginian power and the young Roman Republic, he gradually discovers the meaning of his Etruscan identity and the obligations attached to it.

Historical Periods

Ancient Rome753 BCE–476 CE Classical Greece480–323 BCE Battle of Marathon490 BCE

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War Fiction

Historical people

Xerxes I520 BCE–466 BCE

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