Da Catone a Plinio: quali Reti?

Ancient authors’ information about the Raethians depend on sources produced in a few very different historical and cultural contexts and cannot therefore be treated as a consistent and unified whole. The information about the transalpine Raethians all dates back not before the Augustan age, while the bulk of information about the Raethians settled in the Adige Valley and in other neighboring valleys derives from traditions that originated in the Veneto region between the 4 th and the beginning of the 2 nd century BC; some of them attributed an Etruscan origin to the Raethians, which is however denied by linguistic data and archaeological evidence.