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A Companion to the Etruscans
Contributor(s): Bell, Sinclair (Editor), Carpino, Alexandra A. (Editor)

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 ISBN: 1118352742     ISBN-13: 9781118352748
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE: $202.30  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2016
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Ancient - Rome
- Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical
Dewey: 937.501
LCCN: 2015031873
Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.6" W x 9.7" L (2.34 lbs) 528 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
 
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Publisher Description:
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
 
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