Roma: «L'Erma» di Bretschneider, 2000. — 180 p., 35 p. di tav. — (Studia archaeologica, 105). — ISBN: 88-8265-090. La Tabula Cortonensis (di bronzo) fu presentata da Agostiniani e Nicosia a specialisti e giornalisti a Firenze il 30 giugno 1999. Essa fu rinvenuta in Camucia (presso Cortona, prov. di Arezzo) nel 1992. Contiene un testo etrusco, costituito complessivamente da 40...
Alessandria: Edizioni Dell'Orso, 2011 – Milano: Libera università di lingue e comunicazione, IULM – Atti del Convegno internazionale Le lingue dell’Italia antica: iscrizioni, testi, grammatica = Die Sprachen Altitaliens: Inschriften, Texte, Grammatik: in memoriam Helmut Rix (1926-2004): 7-8 marzo 2011 (= Alessandria: Rivista di glottologia, 5) – a cura di Giovanna Rocca – ISBN:...
Amsterdam: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 2003. — 59 p. What if Herodotus was right, and the Etruscans actually did come from Lydia? Beekes argues that they did, but “Lydia” was not the same place as in Herodotus’ own day. It is a clever argument which accounts for various facts: the references to Tyrsenians in Asia Minor, the social changes in Etruria...
Wiley Blackwell, 2016. — 510 p. — ( Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World). Over the last decade, interest in Etruscan art and archaeology has been rapidly on the rise. Often dismissed as mysterious, eccentric, and culturally inferior to the Greeks and the Romans, the Etruscans were in fact a vibrant, independent people whose distinct civilization flourished in central...
New York: Cowles Book Company, 1969. — 206 p. — (Ancient civilizations). Modern archaeology is no longer left to the operation of chance and even greater use is being made of scientific techniques. Remarkable results have been achieved through geophysical methods using resistivity curves, patterns of magnetic anomalies, and seismic diagrams — supplemented by stratigraphic,...
Revised and expanded version of Le mystere etrusque , translated by Stuart Hood. — New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1958. — 260 p. — (Ancient Peoples and Places, Vol. 7). "This book begins with a general historical survey of Etruscology. We shall then deal with the key questions for which modern research has still not found final answers — the problem of the origins of the...
Ecole Française de Rome, 1993. — 234 p. Denys d'Halicarnasse, premier étruscologue: l'auteur des Antiquités romaines doit cette réputation flatteuse à la manière dont il a, dans cet ouvrage, discuté de la question des origines étrusques. Il a ainsi été le premier à prendre une position argumentée dans un des débats classiques de l'étruscologie - et on peut estimer que les...
Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1995. — 168 p. — (Lost Civilizations). — ISBN: 0-8094-9045-5. Few civilizations have shone so brightly and faded as quickly. Bursting from a relatively small homeland, about the size of West Virginia or Wales, the Etruscans in the seventh century BC expanded west and south, to found colonies on the Tyrrhenian island of Corsica and near...
University of Texas Press, 2019. — 176 p. Expanding the study of Etruscan habitation sites to include not only traditional cities but also smaller Etruscan communities, Cetamura del Chianti examines a settlement that flourished during an exceptional time period, amid wars with the Romans in the fourth to first centuries BCE. Situated in an ideal hilltop location that was easy...
London: Parker, Son, and Bourn, 1861. — 200 p. Ellis Robert. About the Armenian origin of the Etruscans (In English) The Aryan Race and Its Divisions. The Etruscans, a Branch of the Thracian Race. Linguistic Evidence of the Extension of the Thracian Race from Armenia to Etruria. Cappadocian Words. Phrygian Words. Phrygian Inscriptions. Lydian Words. Carian Words. The Lycians...
Edinburgh: Maclachlan & Stewart, 1879. — 378 p. Fraser John. Were the Etruscans Celts? (In English) History of the Etruscans. The Fossils Classified. The Monkeys. Trees and Plants. Domestic Animals and Implements. The Sky, the Air, Light, Time. The Physical Features of a Country. Personal terms. Military Terms. Abstract Terms. Terms Used in Religion. Birds. Weights and...
Brill Academic Pub, 2008. — 337 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 166). Etruscans were deemed 'the most religious of men' by their Roman successors and it is hardly surprising that the topic of Etruscan religion has been explored for some time now. This volume offers a contribution to the continued study of Etruscan religion and daily life, by focusing on the less...
Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, 1968. — 248 p. — (Ancient Peoples and Places, Vol. 62). This volume is a brief summary of a larger work in two volumes called Tarquinia, Villanovans and Early Etruscans published by the Peabody Museum of Harvard University as Bulletin 23 of the American School of Prehistoric Research. Tarquinian Landscape. Villanovan I. Villanovan II. Villanovan...
Translated from the French by James Kirkap. — London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1964. — 308 p. "The word Etruscan might a priori seem to many people the very last one to be associated with the idea of 'daily life'. The mere sound of the word tends to induce in certain people a trance-like state which almost discourages any attempt to approach the subject in a realistic manner....
Translated by Anthony Werner. — New York: Tudor Publishing Co, 1973. — 144 p. — ISBN: 0-8148-0579-5. A great variety of peoples, most of which have left only a vague imprint on history, has passed in succession over the territory of Italy. We are told of Aborigines, Ligures, Ausonian, Japygians, Siculi, Oenotrians, Umbrians, Italiots, Pelasgi, Etruscans, etc. But to which...
Stuttgart: A. Heitz, 1877. — viii, 560 S. Einleitung. Bruchstücke der äusseren Geschichite des Etruskischen Volkes. Ueber die Nationalverschiedenheit der Etrusker und der andern Hauptstämme Italiens Von der Ausbreitung des Tuskischen Volkes in Etrurien und seinen Verhältnissen zu den Nachbarvölkern. Von der Herrschaft der Tusker in Oberitalien. Von den Colonien der Etrusker in...
De Gruyter, 2017. — 2000 p. This volume presents a cutting-edge overview of the history and development of Etruscan Studies. It offers a diachronic account of Etruscan history, culture, religion, art & archaeology, society, and politics, as well as a systematic discussion of the topography of Etruscan civilization and its sphere of influence. This is an authoritative new...
Translated from the Italian by J. Cremona. — Penguin Books, 1955. — 295 p. Before the Romans could establish their empire they had first to conquer and unify the other cities and peoples in Italy. The most powerful and highly civilized of these other peoples were the Etruscans. In this study Professor Pallottino discusses the origins, culture, religion, and language of this...
Reaktion Books, 2017. — 208 p. — (Lost Civilizations). The Etruscans were a powerful people, marked by an influential civilization in ancient Italy. But despite their prominence, the Etruscans are often portrayed as mysterious - a strange and unknowable people whose language and culture have largely vanished. Lucy Shipley’s The Etruscans presents a different picture. Shipley...
Berlin: Reclam, 2015. Christopher Smith legt hier ein kurzes, allgemein verständliches Buch über Geschichte, Kultur und Religion der Etrusker vor, das die ältesten Italiener spannend und auf dem neuesten Kenntnisstand der Wissenschaft porträtiert.
Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014. — 168 p. — (Very Short Introductions). From around 900 to 400 BC, the Etruscans were the most innovative, powerful, wealthy, and creative people in Italy. Their archaeological record is both substantial and fascinating, including tomb paintings, sculpture, jewellery, and art. In this Very Short Introduction, Christopher...
Scarecrow Press, 2009. — 360 p. — (Historical Dictionaries of Ancient Civilizations, No. 24). — ISBN: 978-0-8108-5471-0. The Etruscans were the creators of one of the most highly developed cultures of the pre-Roman Era. Having, at one time, control over a significant part of the Mediterranean, the Etruscans laid the foundation of the city of Rome. They had their own language,...
University of Texas Press, 2006. — 225 p. — ISBN: 0-292-70687-1. Devotion to religion was the distinguishing characteristic of the Etruscan people, the most powerful civilization of Italy in the Archaic period. From a very early date, Etruscan religion spread its influence into Roman society, especially with the practice of divination. The Etruscan priest Spurinna, to give a...
London: Routledge, 2012. — 1216 p. The Etruscans can be shown to have made significant, and in some cases perhaps the first, technical advances in the central and northern Mediterranean. To the Etruscan people we can attribute such developments as the tie-beam truss in large wooden structures, surveying and engineering drainage and water tunnels, the development of the foresail...
Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1927. — 100 p. Van Essen K. Kl. Was there any influence of the Orphics on Etruscan funerary frescoes? (In English) Iconography of the Paintings. Orphic Eschatology of the early Period. Greek Ideas concerning Punishment in the Hereafter. Appendix: Lucretius. Vergilius. Addenda. Index of references to Brunn - Koerte: Rilievi delle Urne etrusche. General Index.
Comments