The Etruscan World (Routledge Worlds)

List of contributors – xl Minore di Vetulonia,” in Deliciae Fictiles IV, Atti del Convegno Internazionale sul tema “Terrecotte ...

List of contributors – xli Forgery (University of Chicago Press, 2004). Her essays in The New York Review of Books were collec ...

List of contributors – xlii mito, exhibition catalogue (Cortona 2009); Sacra Mirabilia Tesori da Castiglion Fiorentino, exhibi ...

List of contributors – xliii the direction of Professor Gilda Bartoloni. He is currently a research fellow at Sapienza Univers ...

List of contributors – xliv her recent articles include: “New light on the production of decorated roofs of the 6th c. B.C. at ...

xlv PREFACE Jean MacIntosh Turfa W e walk in the footsteps of giants, the many scholars who have preceded us in the study of anc ...

xlvi Map 1 The Mediterranean World in the fi rst millennium bc: Etruria in the central Mediterranean, between the Greek and Puni ...

xlvii Map 2 The Italian archipelago: cultural regions. From M. Pallottino, Genti e Culture dell’Italia Preromana (Rome, 1981), F ...

xlviii Map 3 Etruria: principal cities and sites. From L. Banti, The Etruscan Cities and Their Culture (Berkeley and Los Angeles ...

INTRODUCTION TIME TO GIVE THE ETRUSCANS THEIR DUE Jean MacIntosh Turfa T he world of the Etruscans has expanded greatly in recen ...

Jean MacIntosh Turfa – There is an unconscious element prompting denial in all of us: if history could fail to preserve even b ...

Introduction – Bietti Sestieri, on the Italic peoples of central Italy, especially the Latins).^4 The later years of Etruscan ...

Jean MacIntosh Turfa – In Part II, the historical development of Etruria begins with the Villanovan culture (Chapter 5), and p ...

Introduction – the great necropoleis described in Chapter 32, followed by a brief consideration of the imagery and relevance o ...

Jean MacIntosh Turfa – actually brought home from a pirate raid? As in Homer’s epics, hosts would have regaled visitors with t ...

Introduction – L. Bonfante, ed., Etruscan Life and Afterlife, Detroit: Wayne State, 1986. G. Bonfante and L. Bonfante, The Etr ...

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PART I ENVIRONMENT, BACKGROUND AND THE STUDY OF ETRUSCAN CULTURE ...

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CHAPTER ONE ETRUSCAN ENVIRONMENTS Ingela M. B. Wiman THE TERRA FIRMA T he continents are in a state of fl ux, in a manner usuall ...