New work sheds light on the Etruscans, who may have founded Rome
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Re: New work sheds light on the Etruscans, who may have founded Rome
#2Discovered Etruscan art during a random walk that led past a small museum in Rome. It is elegant, unique, and weirdly anachronistic for its era; has a futuristic feel to me.
Re: New work sheds light on the Etruscans, who may have founded Rome
#3Discovered Etruscan art during a random walk that led past a small museum in Rome. It is elegant, unique, and weirdly anachronistic for its era; has a futuristic feel to me.
The National Etruscan Museum in Rome (https://www.museoetru.it/) holds one of the largest collections of Etruscan art. Do not miss if you happen to be in Rome.
Re: New work sheds light on the Etruscans, who may have founded Rome
#4Discovered Etruscan art during a random walk that led past a small museum in Rome. It is elegant, unique, and weirdly anachronistic for its era; has a futuristic feel to me.
The National Etruscan Museum in Rome ( https://www.museoetru.it/ ) holds one of the largest collections of Etruscan art. Do not miss if you happen to be in Rome.
Seconded - affordable and not crowded as well!
Re: New work sheds light on the Etruscans, who may have founded Rome
#5That doesn't sound to me as any news.
Etruscans settled a lot of colonies in the southern part of the peninsula, down to Pompeii (which was founded by Etruscans and taken over by Samnites) and Melfi.
And they were ahead of all other local cultures by far, especially in the metallurgic technologies and writing.
They were not a single kingdom but a group of city-kingdoms.
So I can think of Rome more like a colony that took over the mother city-kingdom first, then the whole peninsula.
Moreover, the names of the first traditional kings of Rome are Etruscans too.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
The National Etruscan Museum in Rome ( https://www.museoetru.it/ ) holds one of the largest collections of Etruscan art. Do not miss if you happen to be in Rome.
Seconded - affordable and not crowded as well!
I think you would need a whole year of museum visiting just to have a glimpse of all pre-Roman civilizations in Italy.
The Museo Sannitico in Campobasso (https://www.musei.molise.beniculturali.it/musei?mid=208&nome...) is one among them.
Everyone forgets about the Samnites, who required Rome to fight 70 years before getting rid of them!
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#7Isn't it a bigger/more important mystery why proto-indo european language was so successful at supplanting the local languages it intermixed with? Rather than why the Etruscans kept speaking their own language.
I'm really curious if there were positive "network effects" of increasingly large populations of neighbors speaking compatible languages (even if they formed a gradient as the Romance languages did from Rome to Portugal and northern France) Otherwise, it would make more sense for a successful prosperous culture to keep their own language and it would not be surprising at all.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seconded - affordable and not crowded as well!
I think you would need a whole year of museum visiting just to have a glimpse of all pre-Roman civilizations in Italy. The Museo Sannitico in Campobasso ( https://www.musei.molise.beniculturali.it/musei?mid=208&nome... ) is one among them. Everyone forgets about the Samnites, who required Rome to fight 70 years before getting rid of them!
In high school we did a two week tour of Italy. I can really recommend it to everyone. My uncle has taken my nieces for holidays all over Italy for 16 years to show all the nice places and art.
Re: New work sheds light on the Etruscans, who may have founded Rome
#9Isn't it a bigger/more important mystery why proto-indo european language was so successful at supplanting the local languages it intermixed with? Rather than why the Etruscans kept speaking their own language. I'm really curious if there were positive "network effects" of increasingly large populations of neighbors speaking compatible languages (even if they formed a gradient as the Romance languages did from Rome t…
The romance languages formed due to the legacy of the Roman empire, so their success is largely due to the Roman success. People say that the roman empire ended, and while indeed Rome lost its central role in many ways, the roman empire's legacy is still felt. Before the Romans though, there have been the greeks as well as the hittites, both speaking indo european languages. Romans pretty much copied a lot of greek culture as well as their strategy of building trading outposts everywhere.
Re: New work sheds light on the Etruscans, who may have founded Rome
#10History is written by the victor; it's definitely curious that among the famous seven kings of Rome the last three have Etruscan origin.