Posted on 06/01/2010 8:45:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Thanks. I find the Etruscans fascinating because we know so darn little about them.
It looks like the average Italian knows as little about his history and the average American is taught about his.
o they were quite modern weren’t they? lol The only thing missing is Mellancamp’s “Little Pink Houses” playing in the background.
Yes, it’s a little known fact the Etruscans invented the suburb. :-))
I think that tends to be true everywhere. I was talking to a Brit about some royal history--Richard III or Henry VIII or something--and the guy, college educated, admitted he really didn't know much about history.
Things have sure changed. I’m reading some Macauley, who wrote in the mid-nineteenth century. He assumes his reader not only has a basic knowledge of the historic narrative, but also can read Latin, Greek and French. :-))
Yeah, they’re fair game for speculation. ;’)
http://www.google.com/search?q=lemnian+stele+site:freerepublic.com
Thanks Daaave. I didn’t post the pic because I wanted to get to bed, but knew it was only a matter of time before someone found it. :’)
I think Silla was the ancestor to Dora (the Explora).
/rimshot!
and now, back to our thread.
Thanks, btw!
I’ll try to do better. ;’)
Vaudeville will someday be like Horace.
The Etruscans actually treated women equally with men - they would even dine together. Probably why they were ejected from Asia Minor. :-))
Swish! Nothin' but net.
Oh, you're welcome. I guess I'm not alone in needing to see pictures with a story.
(I think it was) Some relative of Napoleon’s was given the concession to pot-hunt some large Etruscan site. His crews found so much like-new pottery in the tombs and graves that he figured he’d flood his monopoly market, and had most of the artifacts smashed.
That one is a lovely piece, and like most Etruscan stuff, comes from a burial. They may have influenced Rome with their preference for cremation, but inhumation was also practiced among the E’s. One of their symbolic acts was the passing of a hen’s egg from one to another, a symbol found in both terracotta works (such as that nice one above that you posted, thanks!) and in paintings and I think their bronzes.
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