DURNA – ACHILLES OF ITALY

Abstract

The Prototurkic generations of the Old Westeen Asia are the founders of the
first sivilization of Ellas, the islands of the Mediterranian Sea, and Italy.

In the end of the 15th century BC before the fall of Troy and with some inter-
vals in the 14th-11th centuries BC, some of them migrated to Sicily, Italy, and

named Corsica and the Alps with their names.
The information is confirmed in the Etruscan mirror texts, the works of Homer
and Aeschylus, Aeneid by Publius Vergilius Maro, and Punica by Silius Italicus.

One of the valuable sources of the research is On the Latin Language (De lin-
gua latina) by Marcus Terentius Varro, the encyclopedic scholar of the Roman

period. Though the work riched to our time incompletely, there is significant in-
formation about the ethnic groups of Italy before the Roman period. One of those

significant facts is about Durna, the hero of Italy of Western Asian origin. In the
Roman literature, Durna is presented as the Achilles of Italy.