The Etruscans 9th2nd Centuries Bc Raffaele Damato Andrea Salimbeti Giuseppe Ravaillustrations by Raffaele D'amato; Andrea Salimbeti; Giuseppe Rava(illustrations) 9781472828316, 1472828313 instant download after payment.

Dazzled by Imperial Rome, we may often forget its deep roots in the Etruscan world. The Rasenna, as they called themselves, were the most brilliant culture of North-Central Italy in the 1st millenium BC; their civilization extended from the Po Valley down to the boundaries of ancient Latium, especially between the 7th and 5th centuries BC. From the outset, Etruscan culture appears to have been distinct both from that of the contemporary Greek diaspora – by which it was, nevertheless, deeply influenced – and also from that of the Romans, though they in turn absorbed much from the people they called the Tusci. The origins of the Etruscan peoples are still debatable. According to Herodotus (I, 94) and Hellanicus (Dionysius, I, 28), they came from Lydia in Eastern Asia Minor, under a leader named Tyrrhenus, and colonized the fertile Italian region facing the Tyrrhenian Sea. Some scholars link them with the migration of the Sea Peoples called Trš.w, from Anatolia and the Aegean, who are mentioned in Greek sources as Tyrsenoi. In the late 1st century BC, on the other hand, Dionysius of Halicarnassus (I, 25ff) claimed that the Etruscans were an ancient indigenous population, unlike the Romans (who stemmed from a mixture of different peoples of Greek origin);