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Arretium
(267 words)

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Town in  Etruria in the upper Arno valley (Str. 5,2,5), situated on a hilltop at the junction of fertile valleys (Plin. HN 14,36; 18,87: Val di Chiana, Arno valley, Casentino, and Val Tiberina), important road junction, modern Arezzo. A. is first mentioned when it supported the Latini against Tarquiniu…

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Cherici, Armando (Arezzo), “Arretium”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 24 January 2019 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e200610>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510



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