Demaratus was the father of the fifth king of Rome Lucius Tarquinius Priscus; grandfather of the seventh and last King of Rome Lucius Tarquinius Superbus. He was a Corinthian Nobleman who arrived in Italy from Greece as a refugee. Demaratus had settled in the Etruscan city of Tarquinii and married an Etruscan woman. According to Tacitus, he taught the Etruscans literacy and was known as ‘Demaratus the Corinthian’. Lucius Tarquinius Priscus was the legendary fifth King of Rome, said to have reigned from 616 BC to 579 BC. Tarquinius Priscus came from the Etruscan city of Tarquinii and was actually named Lucumo. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000 1... Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (also called Tarquin the Proud or Tarquin II) was the last of the seven legendary kings of Rome, son of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, and son-in-law of Servius Tullius. ... See: Etruscan civilization Etruscan language Etruscan alphabet Etruscan mythology See also: Tyrrhenian, Lemnian, Pelasgian. ... The Etruscan civilization existed in Etruria and the Po valley in the northern part of what is now Italy, prior to the formation of the Roman Republic. ...

When he migrated to Western mainland Italy, he had taken all of his wealth. Demaratus had introduced the Greek Culture and Greek Pottery. He supposedly brought potters with him from Corinth. These potters were responsible for the development of Greek Pottery in Western mainland Italy. There were Greek potters in Tarquinii and in the Greek Trading Post of Gravisca.

According to the Greek Traveller Pausanias, it was either his son or grandson who was the first foreigner to visit Olympia and make a dedication. Pausanias is the name of several ancient people: Pausanias was a Spartan general of the 5th century BC. Pausanias of Sparta was King of Sparta from 409 BC-395 BC. Pausanias was the servant/lover who assassinated Philip II of Macedon in 336 BC Pausanias, Greek traveller and geographer of... Olympia is an ancient city in Greece, in antiquity site of the Olympic Games. ...

Sources: * Morkot, R., The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece, Penguin, 1996.

* Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome, tr. M. Grant, Penguin, 1996.

 * Pausanias, Guide to Greece, tr. P. Levi, Penguin, 1979'.