Editing Etruscan religion (section)

===Roman conquest===
After the Etruscan defeat in the [[Roman–Etruscan Wars]] (264 BCE), the remaining Etruscan culture began to be assimilated into the Roman. The [[Roman Senate]] adopted key elements of the Etruscan religion, which were perpetuated by [[haruspices]] and noble Roman families who claimed Etruscan descent, long after the general population of [[Etruria]] had forgotten the language. In the last years of the [[Roman Republic]] the religion began to fall out of favor and was satirized by such notable public figures as [[Marcus Tullius Cicero]]. The [[Julio-Claudians]], especially [[Claudius]], whose first wife, [[Plautia Urgulanilla]], claimed an Etruscan descent,<ref name=heur>{{cite journal| last1 = Heurgon| first1 = Jacques| authorlink = Jacques Heurgon| date = 1953| location = Paris| title = La vocation étruscologique de l'Empereur Claude| url = https://www.proquest.com/openview/4f8f6bf9c378cb9c5402ebf094b87866/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1816857| journal = Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres| volume = 97| issue = 1| pages = 92–97| access-date = 28 March 2023| language = fr| archive-date = 24 March 2023| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230324143343/https://www.proquest.com/openview/4f8f6bf9c378cb9c5402ebf094b87866/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1816857| url-status = live}}</ref> maintained a knowledge of the language and religion for a short time longer,<ref>{{cite book |author=[[Suetonius]] |title=Life of Claudius |at=42}}</ref> but this practice soon ceased. A number of [[canon (canon law)|canonical works]] in the Etruscan language survived until the middle of the first millennium AD, but were destroyed by the ravages of time, including occasional catastrophic fires, and by decree of the Roman Senate.{{citation needed|date=March 2013}}