Etruscans

Name: Etruscans
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ISBN: 9780631220381

ISBN-10: 0631220380

ISBN-13: 9780631220381

Edition: 2000

Authors: Graeme Barker, Tom B. Rasmussen

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The Etruscans are one of history's extraordinary casualties. For many centuries they flourished exuberantly in central Italy, only to be completely absorbed into the growing Roman state. Their power, at its height, extended well beyond their borders: they were known and feared by Romans and Greeks alike. Their arresting visual culture was second to none in the peninsula, embracing complex funerary and domestic architecture, tomb-painting, narrative art, and jewellery of great luxury and refinement. Their cities grew to notable size and sophistication.But they wrote no connected account of themselves that survives, and so this book focuses on three types of evidence for reconstructing Roman…

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List price: $65.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/18/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.10" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgements


Introduction



The Landscape



Origins



Sources and Society



Cultural Transformations



Settlement and Territory



Subsistence and Economy



Life, Cult, and Afterlife



Romanization



Etruscan Places - A Rough Guide


Bibliography


Index