Word: etruria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Rome was little more than a cluster of hill villages and the Forum a swampy marketplace, the proud and pleasure-loving Etruscans ruled Italy from the Tiber to the Po. In the end, the Roman legions crushed the loose confederation of Etruscan city-states and razed their walls. Etruria's bizarre hobgoblin world of superstition, ritual and magic provided the folk mythology from which poets from Virgil to Dante evoked their images of Hades and Hell; its art was buried in underground tombs to await latter-day grave robbers...
John Bryan Ward-Perkins, Director of the British School in Rome, will be the first Jackson lecturer. He will deliver two illustrated lectures on "Etruria and Rome" at 8:30 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, April 11 and 12, in the Semitic Museum...
...second oldest profession in the world," is an engineer whose family owns a steel mill in Milan. When he became interested in Etruscan tombs, one of his first steps was to get copies of a photographic air survey that Britain's Royal Air Force made of southern Etruria during World War II. Studied carefully, the photos often show hundreds of shadowy circles. These are Etruscan tombs, which affect slightly the fertility of the soil and therefore the darkness of the chlorophyll in green plants growing on the surface. When air photos are taken after a light snowfall, the tombs...
...setting fire to the temple of the Persian goddess Cybele in Sardis, helps incite war between Carthage and Sicily, insults the majesty of Rome, and leads his fellow Etruscans to ruin on the bloody field of Himera. In the end he goes alone to his doomed homeland in Etruria, where the famed twelve "sacred cities" stand in an elegiac hush awaiting the final onslaught of Gauls from the north and Romans from the south that will erase the Etruscan language and religion from history...
...create the splendor of Etruria, the largest collection of Etruscan art ever assembled was on exhibit last week in Milan's Royal Palace. Sixteen rooms were needed to show 422 pieces dating from the 8th to the ist century B.C. They were drawn from 43 museums and private collections. They fit together into a fresh and fascinating picture of a civilization which, Roman Historian Livy wrote, "filled not only the earth but also the sea for the whole length of Italy, from the Alps to the Straits of Messina...