Etruscan Civilization: A Cultural History

by Sybille Haynes

Book Overview

This comprehensive survey of Etruscan civilization, from its origin in the Villanovan Iron Age in the ninth century B.C. to its absorption by Rome in the first century B.C., combines well-known aspects of the Etruscan world with new discoveries and fresh insights into the role of women in Etruscan society. In addition, the Etruscans are contrasted to the Greeks, whom they often emulated, and to the Romans, who at once admired and disdained them. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892365757
• ISBN13: 9780892365753
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 3.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.5" x 10.0"