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The Etruscans : lost civilizations / Lucy Shipley

Author
Shipley, Lucy
Published
London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2019.
Physical Description
213 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 23 cm.

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Why do the Etruscans matter? -- Where is home? -- Ostrich eggs and oriental dreams -- Pots and prejudice -- Super rich, invisible poor -- To be a woman -- Safe as houses -- Sex, lies and Etruscans -- Wrapped up writings -- Listening to livers -- Facing oblivion.
Summary
The Etruscans were a powerful and influential civilization in ancient Italy, but despite their prominence, they are often misrepresented as mysterious--a strange, unknowable people whose language and culture have largely vanished. Lucy Shipley's new history of the Etruscans presents a different picture: of a people who traded with Greece and shaped the development of Rome, who inspired Renaissance artists and Romantic firebrands and whose influence is still felt strongly in the modern world. Covering colonialism and conquest, misogyny and mystique, Etruscan history is woven with the very latest archaeological evidence to provide a unique perspective on this enigmatic culture, revealing how much we now know, and how much still remains undiscovered. The book explores Etruscan culture through a series of stories that also reveal the biases and prejudices of the present day. It describes the journey of Etruscan objects from the point of their creation through the story of their use, loss, rediscovery and reinvention. From the wrappings of an Egyptian mummy displayed in a fashionable salon to the extra-curricular activities of a member of the Bonaparte family, it takes us on an extraordinary voyage through Etruscan archaeology that leads to surprising and intriguing places.
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9781780238326 (hardcover)
1780238320 (hardcover)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-204) and index.
Endowment Note
Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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