(Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) 1st Edition
by Sinclair Bell (Editor), Alexandra A. Carpino (Editor)
This new collection presents a rich 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.
- Includes contributions from an international cast of both established and emerging scholars
- Offers
fresh perspectives on Etruscan art and culture, including analysis of
the most up-to-date research and archaeological discoveries
- Reassesses
and evaluates 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
- 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