A companion to the Etruscans /
Presents a selection of innovative scholarship on the Etruscans, a vibrant, independent people whose distinct civilization flourished in central Italy for most of the first millennium BCE and whose artistic, social and cultural traditions helped shape the ancient Mediterranean, European, and Classic...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex :
Wiley Blackwell,
2016
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| Series: | Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Presents a selection of innovative scholarship on the Etruscans, a vibrant, independent people whose distinct civilization flourished in central Italy for most of the first millennium BCE and whose artistic, social and cultural traditions helped shape the ancient Mediterranean, European, and Classical worlds. The volume includes contributions from an international cast of established and emerging scholars, and offers perspectives on Etruscan art and culture, including analysis of the most up-to-date research and archaeological discoveries. The authors reassess and evaluate traditional topics like architecture, wall painting, ceramics, and sculpture as well as new ones such as textile archaeology, while also addressing themes that have yet to be thoroughly investigated in the scholarship, such as the obesus etruscus, the function and use of jewelry at different life stages, Greek and Roman topoi about the Etruscans, the Etruscans' reception of ponderation, and more. This volume counters the claim that the Etruscans were culturally inferior to the Greeks and Romans by emphasizing fields where the Etruscans were either technological or artistic pioneers and by reframing similarities in style and iconography as examples of Etruscan agency and reception rather than as a deficit of local creativity. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781118354957 1118354958 9781118354988 1118354982 9781118354933 1118354931 111835494X 9781118354940 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
