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This comprehensive survey of Etruscan civilization, from its origin in the Villanovan Iron Age in the ninth century B.C. to its absorption by Rome in the first century B.C., combines well-known aspects of the Etruscan world with new discoveries and fresh insights into the role of women in Etruscan society. In addition, the Etruscans are contrasted to the Greeks, whom they often emulated, and to the Romans, who at once admired and disdained them. The result is a compelling and complete picture of a people and a culture.

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"I cannot praise this book sufficiently... The authors are first-rate scholars in the field; they provide up-to-date information, support, and analysis of the topic. The book offers a great deal of new data and new interpretation in an accessible, clear manner." Helen Nagy, Professor of Art, University of Puget Sound "Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon in their edited collection, The Religion of the Etruscans, offer contributions by the leading specialists on many of the key topics ... These are important topics and make for excellent reading."--Times Literary Supplement, 9 March 2007 Reviewed by D. Paleothodros in French Journal Les Etudes Classiques, 75, 3

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In this survey of the burial and settlement evidence of late Iron Age Etruria, Corinna Riva offers a new reading of the socio-political transformations that led to the formation of urban centres in Tyrrhenian Central Italy. Through a close examination of burial ritual and the material culture associated with it, Riva traces the transformations of seventh-century elite funerary practices and the structuring of political power around these practices in Etruria, arguing that the tomb became the locus for the articulation of new forms of political authority at urban centres. Challenging established views that deem contact with eastern Mediterranean regions crucial to these developments, Riva offers a radically new interpretation of the so-called Orientalizing material culture, taking a long-term perspective on local changes and east-west contact across the Mediterranean.

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From Publishers Weekly

The pictures are amazing. It's too bad about the text. Not that archeologist Steingräber doesn't provide a thorough, if stodgily academic, tour of Etruscan wall painting in this large-scale art book. His smooth, jargon-free account of what he calls "the first chapter in the history of Italian painting," dating from the seventh to the second centuries B.C., will be accessible to anyone with a grasp of the basic outlines of ancient history. The problem is that it's so difficult to connect what Steingräber says with the pictures in the book. The images are not numbered, making it nearly impossible to track down any painting Steingräber mentions, or even to know if the painting is reproduced in the book at all. But the pictures are stunning. Masterfully photographed paintings on Etruscan tomb walls inventively depict birds, dancers, divers and scenes of the afterlife in loose, free-flowing lines.

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ETRUSCAN PLACES By D. H. LAWRENCE. Originally published in 1932.Contents include: I. CERVETERI 9 II. TARQUINIA 37 III. THE PAINTED TOMBS OF TARQUINIA 63 IV. THE PAINTED TOMBS OF TARQUINIA IO3 V. VULCI 139 VI. VOLTERRA I 71 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Tarquinia. Corner of the City with Church of S. Maria in Castello Frontispiece FACING PAGE Cerveteri. Entrance to the Chamber Tombs 22 Cerveteri. Terra-cotta Heads on Sarcophagus now in the Villa Giulia Museum, Rome 30 Tarquinia. Greek Vases with Eye-pattern and Head of Bacchus 56 Tarquinia. Tomb of the Leopards 74 Tarquinia. Tomb of the Feast 78 Tarquinia. Tomb of the Bulls 114 Volterra. Ash-chest showing Acteon and the Dogs 192. CERVETERI

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This book focuses on the chronology and meaning of representations, in painting or (painted) relief, on one hundred forty-eight coffins. After the appearance of R. Herbig's catalogue "Die juengeretruskischen Steinsarkophage" (Berlin) in 1952 many new tombs with sarcophagi were discovered. It is therefore worthwile to review Herbig's chronology and interpretations after a period of fifty years. It appears that the sarcophagi have been made over a period of around six generations, between approximately 350 and 200 BC, at a time which was crucial in the history of Etruria. Between 396 and 264 BC Rome conquered the Etruscan world. The question is: what impact did this conquest have on the minds of the Etruscan ruling elite and of the artisans, at Vulci, Cerveteri, Tarquinia and its hinterlands, at Orvieto, Chiusi and Volterra?

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This well-illustrated volume provides the best collection of Etruscan inscriptions and texts currently in print. A substantial archeological introduction sets language and inscriptions in their historical, geographical, and cultural context. The overview of Etruscan grammar, the glossary, and chapters on mythological figures all incorporate the latest innovative discoveries.

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Tarquinia was one of the great cities of ancient Etruria, where the most powerful, creative and, sometimes, elusive civilisation of pre-Roman Italy emerged. The archaeology of Tarquinia has been at the forefront of Etruscan studies since the early days of antiquarian scholarship and is renowned for its unique painted tombs and vast cemeteries.

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This volume is the catalog of the exhibition The Chimera of Arezzo, displayed at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa in Los Angeles from July 16th, 2009 to February 8th, 2010. Discovered outside of Porta S. Lorentino in Arezzo in 1553, this impressive Etruscan bronze dates back to the 5th century B.C. and is usually housed in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Florence. It depicts a mythical beast with characteristics of a lion, a goat and a serpent; she is the daughter of the giants Typhoon and Echidna, and was vanquished by the hero Bellerophon on the back of the winged horse Pegasus.

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