Tarchon
In the poem, he leads the Etruscans in their alliance with Aeneas against Turnus and the other Latian tribes.[1] The later Byzantine writer John the Lydian distinguishes two legendary people by this name.[citation needed] The English spelling Tarchon comes from the Greek Τάρχων, or Τάρκων which itself is thought to reflect tarχun in the Etruscan language.[3] The name is thought to be related to the Latin Tarquinius, the name of a Roman gens, and of the Tarquins, two of the legendary Seven Kings of Rome.The Hittitologist Oliver Gurney proposed that the name could be related to the name of the Luwian storm god Tarhunt,[4] though this connection has been dismissed by other researchers such as Carlo De Simone.