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    Lars Porsena (redirect from Porsenna)
    Lars Porsena (or Porsenna; Etruscan: Pursenas) was an Etruscan king (lar) known for his war against the city of Rome. He ruled over the city of Clusium...
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    N. Porsenna (pen name of Nicu Porsena Ionescu, also known as Nicu Porsenna or Porsena; 13 January 1892 – 18 January 1971) was a Romanian lawyer, writer...
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    from Lars Porsenna, the king of Clusium, who marches on Rome but is stopped by Horatius Cocles who defends a bridge alone against Porsenna's forces until...
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    Mucius Scaevola before Lars Porsenna is a c.1618-1620 painting by Rubens and his pupil Antony van Dyck. It was painted for the Spanish royal court and...
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    been fictional, and some scholars argue that it was the Etruscan king Porsenna who overthrew Tarquinius. The plebeian status of the Junia gens has also...
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    Roman cistern dating from the 1st century BC. The so-called "Labyrinth of Porsenna", a series of tunnels under the town, built in the 6th-5th century BC and...
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    demonstrated his seriousness and determination to the Etruscan king Lars Porsenna by holding his right hand in a fire. Derived from the Latin word vir ("man")...
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    Mucius Scaevola in the Presence of Lars Porsenna by Matthias Stom, (early 1640s), Art Gallery of New South Wales...
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    Elder's St John the Baptist Preaching, Rubens's Mucius Scaevola Before Porsenna, Murillo's The Christ Child Distributing Bread to Pilgrims, Maarten van...
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    Livy claims that Porsenna aimed to restore Tarquin to his throne, but failed to take Rome after a siege. Tacitus suggests that Porsenna's army succeeded...
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