Tyrrhenus
Template:Short description In Etruscan mythology, Tyrrhenus (in Template:Langx) was one of the founders of the Etruscan League of twelve cities, along with his brother Tarchon. Herodotus<ref>Herodotus, Histories I.94</ref> describes him as the saviour of the Etruscans, because he led them from Lydia to Etruria; however this Lydian origin is to be debated as it contradicts cultural and linguistic evidence, as well as the view held by both the Etruscans themselves and by other Etrusco-Roman and Greek ancient sources.<ref>Mrs. Hamilton Grey, Chapter I, "The Rasena"; pp.5-15</ref><ref>Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquities Romanae, Book 1; Section 30.</ref><ref>Nancy Thomson de Grummond, Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend, "Foundation Myths and Legends"; pp. 201-208. </ref> His name was given to the Etruscan people by the Greeks. The Romans extended this use to the sea west of Etruria: the Tyrrhenian Sea.