(30) Probably not
Etruscans, but the non-Hellenic peoples of Thrace and (according to Thucydides) of Lemnos and Athens.
Stantatus, De Temperamente ) if it is not a god; and as such we know it was worshiped by the
Etruscans, and, if we may believe Macrobious, by the Cupasians also.
The Celtic dolmen and cromlech, the Etruscan tumulus, the Hebrew galgal, are words.
Thus, in order to enunciate here only summarily, a law which it would require volumes to develop: in the high Orient, the cradle of primitive times, after Hindoo architecture came Phoenician architecture, that opulent mother of Arabian architecture; in antiquity, after Egyptian architecture, of which Etruscan style and cyclopean monuments are but one variety, came Greek architecture (of which the Roman style is only a continuation), surcharged with the Carthaginian dome; in modern times, after Romanesque architecture came Gothic architecture.
It was usual for ladies who received in the evenings to wear what were called "simple dinner dresses": a close-fitting armour of whale-boned silk, slightly open in the neck, with lace ruffles filling in the crack, and tight sleeves with a flounce uncovering just enough wrist to show an
Etruscan gold bracelet or a velvet band.
It was found among the ruins of one of the oldest of the
Etruscan cities.
Certain odd minutes every day went to learning things by heart; he never took a ticket without noting the number; he devoted January to Petronius, February to Catullus, March to the
Etruscan vases perhaps; anyhow he had done good work in India, and there was nothing to regret in his life except the fundamental defects which no wise man regrets, when the present is still his.
One of several small volumes in the new and growing Lost Civilizations series, which includes Egypt, The Greeks, The Persians, The Indus, and The Goths, Lucy Shipley's The
Etruscans is a thoroughly up-to-date account of what we know today about the most important pre-Roman civilization of ancient Italy.
(TAP) -- The new showcase of the Carthage National museum "Carthage and the
Etruscans, an old friendship," was inaugurated on Friday by Culture Minister Mohamed Zine el Abidine and Tourism Minister Selma Elloumi-Rekik, in the presence of several political and economic personalities, ambassadors and actors in the field of history and heritage.
In response to the growing specialization in the study of the
Etruscans, Etruscologists present a massive and broad reference in which specialists can learn the current status of other areas, and newcomers and scholars in related disciplines can read about selected aspects of the ancient peoples.
Among the most notable features of Lawrence's book is his constant juxtaposition of the
Etruscans and the Romans.