Penn Museum Exhibitions 2008-09 Jun 25, 2008
Worlds Intertwined: Etruscans, Greeks, and Romans ... The Etruscans are revealed in fine pottery, cinerary urns and carved sarcophagi, terracotta architectural elements, jewelry and arms and armor. (Suite101.com)
Eddie Izzard strips down for U.S. tour May 20, 2008
"In the old days, and by the old days I mean two years ago, we'd think of something. How do people make jam? How do people make wine? Something you wanted to know and you'd just ask your friends and if your friends didn't know or anyone standing next to you didn't know, then you just gave up. But now, you pull out this thing, press a button, put in 'winemaking Wikipedia' and up comes how they make wine or jam or bread or the history of the Chaplin family or the history of the world or the Romans... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Who Owns History? Feb 22, 2008
First I headed to California and the Getty Villa in Malibu, a museum devoted to the ancient Greeks, Etruscans and Romans. I wanted a long last look at its statue of a goddess from the 5th century B.C. Scholars are divided over just which goddess she represents, but whoever she is, at 7. (Time.com)
At Venice's Palazzo Grassi, a fragmentary view of barbarian times Feb 16, 2008
" The show of more than 2,000 artifacts from 200 museums in 23 countries revives the policy of using Palazzo Grassi as the venue for blockbuster presentations of ancient civilizations - the Celts, Mayans and Etruscans were among them - established by the Fiat group during its tenure of the building from 1983 to 2005. The Palazzo was taken over by the French businessman Fran?ois Pinault, whose assets include Gucci and Christie's and he initially employed it as a showcase for his own collection of... (International Herald Tribune)
The Phoenician Alphabet Dec 27, 2007
Both the Etruscans and the Greeks (among others) adopted the script and made it into their own. (Our own word alphabet comes from the first two characters of the Greek alphabet, alpha and beta. (Suite101.com)
Newsweek: Ancient ships, watery graves in Pisa Nov 2, 2007
Studying the oldest boats' contents and the way those ships were built, archeologists now better understand just who the Romans and Etruscans traded with and how they lived and utilized the Mediterranean Sea. Some of the oldest ships belonged to the Greeks and the Phoenicians, which implies that the mysterious and little-understood Etruscans were in fact active traders. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Stage gloryRome's theatre history takes centre stage at Colosseum show Oct 10, 2007
The Greeks and the Etruscans were the first to hold public theatre performances of tragedies and comedies in arenas scooped out of a hillside, or in temporary wooden structures. But it was the Romans who first developed mass entertainment on the grand scale in huge purpose-built theatres built of stone on flat sites. (BBC News -- Europe)
Forget Oktoberfest, this month has a bigger distinction Oct 8, 2007
It's believed the ancient Etruscans baked a mix of flour and water on hot stones to make the first flat bread. An excavation of Pompeii, which was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., uncovered the original Pizza Hut with marble slabs, pizza-making tools and a sign advertising half-price bread sticks. (Florida Times-Union)
Tragedy of nation's dying languages lost in translation Sep 5, 2007
After all, can you imagine an Italian who had never heard of the Etruscans or the Romans. A Greek who had never heard of the Minoans or the Spartans. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Marigolds: History and Culture Jul 31, 2007
Tages was known for teaching the Etruscans , which is the art of divination using animal entrails. History. (Suite101.com)
The enigma of Italy's ancient Etruscans is finally unravelled Jun 18, 2007
The Etruscans created great works of art including the Bride and Bridegroom, or the Married Couple ... Yet the Etruscans, whose descendants today live in central Italy, have long been among the great enigmas of antiquity ... It shows the Etruscans came from the area which is now Turkey - and that the nearest genetic relatives of many of today's Tuscans and Umbrians are to be found, not in Italy, but around Izmir. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Ancient Etruscans were immigrants from Anatolia, or what is now Turkey Jun 17, 2007
Professor Alberto Piazza, from the University of Turin, Italy, will say that there is overwhelming evidence that the Etruscans, whose brilliant civilisation flourished 3000 years ago in what is now Tuscany, were settlers from old Anatolia (now in southern Turkey) ... Three main theories have emerged: that the Etruscans came from Anatolia, Southern Turkey, as propounded by the Greek historian Herotodus; that they were indigenous to the region and developed from the Iron Age Villanovan society, as... (EurekAlert!)
Last stand to lasting fame Mar 11, 2007
The first is that of Horatius Cocles, a Roman hero who defended his city from the Etruscans (500BCE) by standing on one side of a bridge (the Pons Sublicius) across the river Tiber. He fought a lone battle after his men destroyed the bridge blocking off the enemys access that left him stranded. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Greek Black-Figure Vase Painting Feb 11, 2007
But early Greek clay pottery, which was cheap, very durable, and beautifully decorated, was immensely popular with the Etruscans, among the Greeks themselves, and over much of the ancient world. Black-figure vase was done with one type of clay. (Suite101.com)
