Author: Frederick H. A. SeymourPublisher:
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Category : Etruria
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Up Hill and Down Dale in Ancient Etruria
Author: Frederick H. A. SeymourPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Etruria
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Up Hill and Down Dale in Ancient Etruria
Author: Frederick H. A. SeymourPublisher:
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Category : Etruria
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Etruscans in the Modern Imagination
Author: Sam SoleckiPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228015774
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
The Etruscans, a revenant and unusual people, had an Italian empire before the Greeks and Romans did. By the start of the Christian era their wooden temples and writings had vanished, the Romans and the early church had melted their bronze statues, and the people had assimilated. After the last Etruscan augur served the Romans as they fought back the Visigoths in 408 CE, the civilization disappeared but for ruins, tombs, art, and vases. No other lost culture disappeared as completely and then returned to the same extent as the Etruscans. Indeed, no other ancient Mediterranean people was as controversial both in its time and in posterity. Though the Greeks and Romans tarred them as superstitious and decadent, D.H. Lawrence praised their way of life as offering an alternative to modernity. In The Etruscans in the Modern Imagination Sam Solecki chronicles their unexpected return to intellectual and cultural history, beginning with eighteenth-century scholars, collectors, and archaeologists. The resurrection of this vanished kingdom occurred with remarkable vigour in philosophy, literature, music, history, mythology, and the plastic arts. From Wedgwood to Picasso, Proust to Lawrence, Emily Dickinson to Anne Carson, Solecki reads the disembodied traces of Etruscan culture for what they tell us about cultural knowledge and mindsets in different times and places, for the way that ideas about the Etruscans can serve as a reflection or foil to a particular cultural moment, and for the creative alchemy whereby artists turn to the past for the raw materials of contemporary creation. The Etruscans are a cultural curiosity because of their disputed origin, unique language, and distinctive religion and customs, but their destination is no less worthy of our curiosity. The Etruscans in the Modern Imagination provides a fascinating meditation on cultural transmission between ancient and modern civilizations.
D, Society. E, Geography. 1912
Author: William Swan SonnenscheinPublisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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Bulletin of the Toronto Public Library
Author: Toronto Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1428
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Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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