ABSTRACT
An Etruscan hero, possibly, though not certainly, historical; identified by the Emperor Claudius with the sixth king of Rome, Servius Tullius. Mastarna’s exploits played a great part in the legends of Etruria. It was believed that he belonged to the Etruscan town of Vulci, but that he was driven from Etruria with Caeles and Aulus Vibenna, in whose company he then occupied the Caelian Hill at Rome. According to an Etruscan tradition, preserved on paintings from Vulci, Mastarna rescued Caeles Vibenna from ‘Tarquinius the Roman’ (one of the kings of that name of Rome?), who was killed. It is possible that he himself, if he was a historical figure, likewise became king of Rome, though in that case he was not one of the traditional seven.
