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Tuscans 'not descended from Etruscans'
Italy Mag ^
| 04 July 2009
| Italy
Posted on 07/05/2009 11:32:18 AM PDT by BGHater
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'Most of what is known about the Etruscans derives from archaeology as the few accounts passed down by Roman historians tend to be hostile, portraying them as gluttonous and lecherous.'
Sounds like they would make a great tail gate party.
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07/05/2009 11:32:19 AM PDT
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BGHater
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
07/05/2009 11:32:42 AM PDT
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BGHater
(Insanity is voting for Republicans and expecting Conservatism.)
To: BGHater
If you've got the Romans portraying you as “gluttonous and lecherous”, you must be a real party animal.
To: BGHater
Obviously this was written ages before romans themselves became gluttonous and lecherous.
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07/05/2009 11:36:08 AM PDT
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mamelukesabre
(Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
To: ozzymandus
my thoughts exactly. gluttonous and lecherous... I may be tuscan. rofl
To: BGHater; SunkenCiv
What about the Vulcans and the Romulans?
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07/05/2009 11:45:59 AM PDT
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Perdogg
(Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
To: BGHater
Tuscans 'not descended from Etruscans'Thanks for this. Now I can sleep at night, finally knowing the truth.
To: Perdogg
Mmmm. Vulcan women.
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posted on
07/05/2009 11:57:34 AM PDT
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Bratch
To: BGHater
If ‘e can’t trust Etruscans, who can ‘e trust-can?
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07/05/2009 12:21:02 PM PDT
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Jagman
To: ozzymandus
.............and stealing their women
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posted on
07/05/2009 12:22:56 PM PDT
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nufsed
(. Stay away and I'll stay here. What else needs to be siad?)
To: BGHater
Isn’t modern Tuscany part of what the Romans called “Cisalpine Gaul”? If I’m right, that would sorta indicate that the Gauls from over the alpines displaced the bronze age inhabitants.
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07/05/2009 1:30:49 PM PDT
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Tallguy
("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
To: Jagman
The real question is did the Etruscans invent E-surance?
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07/05/2009 1:33:27 PM PDT
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Tallguy
("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
To: Perdogg
Cousins. Uh-oh, where’d that mental image come from...
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07/05/2009 3:40:51 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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07/05/2009 3:41:10 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Tallguy
also wonder how much german immigration occurred in the area in the late empire. I would assume they might be able to link current/medieval dna of the area to other historical dna of known groups that have migrated.
To: Tallguy
Cisalpine Gaul
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07/05/2009 6:01:11 PM PDT
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blam
To: Tallguy
Isnt modern Tuscany part of what the Romans called Cisalpine Gaul?No, the southern boundary of Cisalpine Gaul was the Rubicon river, which is why when Caesar took his army out of his province by crossing the Rubicon he had declared war on the Senate of Rome.
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07/05/2009 11:03:13 PM PDT
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Lucius Cornelius Sulla
("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
To: WoofDog123
also wonder how much german immigration occurred in the area in the late empireBoth the Ostrogoths and the Lombards occupied Tuscany.
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07/05/2009 11:04:57 PM PDT
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Lucius Cornelius Sulla
("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
To: SunkenCiv
Thanks again , Civ,for a fascinating archaeology post.
I have always found the Etruscans fascinating.
Although there are Etruscan ruins throughout Italy, little or nothing is known about their origins, language, culture, or final end.
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07/05/2009 11:43:06 PM PDT
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Cincinna
(TIME TO REBUILD * PALIN * JINDAL * CANTOR 2012)
To: ozzymandus
If you've got the Romans portraying you as gluttonous and lecherous, you must be a real party animal. Supposedly Etruscan women exercised with men in the nude, took part in the banquets and drinking parties and were free to have sex with men other than their husbands.
Or maybe that's just what the Romans wanted us to believe.
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07/06/2009 12:16:04 PM PDT
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colorado tanker
("Lastly, I'd like to apologize for America's disproportionate response to Pearl Harbor . . . ")
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