Tyrrhenians

This article is about the Greek exonym for certain non-Greek peoples. For other uses, see Tyrrhenian (disambiguation).

Tyrrhenians (Attic Greek: Τυῤῥηνοί Turrhēnoi) or Tyrsenians (Ionic: Τυρσηνοί Tursēnoi; Doric: Τυρσανοί Tursānoi[1]) was the name used by the ancient Greeks authors to refer, in a generic sense, to non-Greek people, in particular pirates.[2]

While ancient sources have been interpreted in a variety of ways, the Greeks always called the Etruscans Tyrsenoi, although not all Tyrsenians were Etruscans.[2] Furthermore the languages of Etruscan, Rhaetian and Lemnian cultures have been grouped together as the Tyrsenian languages, based on their strong similarities.[3]

Tyrrhenian languages
  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Liddell-Scott was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Abulafia (2014), p. 145-6.
  3. ^ Kluge, Sindy; Salomon, Corinna; Schumacher, Stefan (2013–2018). "Modern research on Raetic". Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum. Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna. Retrieved 26 July 2018.