Etruscan civilization - Language

Please remove this notice after the article has been expanded. Details are on this talk page or at Wikipedia:Requests for expansion. The Etruscan civilization flourished in Etruria and the Po valley in the northern part of what is now Italy, prior to the arrival of Gauls in the Po valley and the formation of the Roman Republic. Etruscan culture developed in northern and central Italy after ca 800 BC without a serious break out of the preceding Villanovan culture. The Villanovan culture, the earliest ...

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• Etruscan civilization - Some Etruscan rulers
• Etruscan civilization - Bibliography

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The Etruscans are generally believed to have spoken a non-Indo-European language. Herodotus (c. 400 BC) records the legend that they came from Lydia (modern western Turkey). Contrarily, Dionysius of Halicarnassus (c. 100 BC) pronounced that the Etruscans were indigenous to Italy, calling themselves Rasenna and being part of an ancient nation "which does not resemble any other people in their language or in their way of life, or customs." Knowledge of the Etruscan language only began with the discovery of the bilingual ...

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The Etruscans are generally believed to have spoken a non-Indo-European language. Herodotus (c. 400 BC) records the legend that they came from Lydia (modern western Turkey). Contrarily, Dionysius of Halicarnassus (c. 100 BC) pronounced that the Etruscans were indigenous to Italy, calling themselves Rasenna and being part of an ancient nation "which does not resemble any other people in their language or in their way of life, or customs." Knowledge of the Etruscan language only began with the discovery of the bilingual ...

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Etruscan civilization - Kinship. The cemetaries of the Etruscans give us considerable information about their society. They were a monogamous society that emphasized pairing. The word for married couple was tusurthir. The lids of large numbers of sarcophagi are adorned with sculpted couples, smiling, in the prime of life (even if the remains were of persons advanced in age), reclining next to each other or with arms around each other ...

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The cities that composed the Etruscan Dodecapoli or league of "twelve cities" has no completely authoritative roster. Those Etruscan cities most often included (with their more familiar Latin and Italian equivalents) are: Arretium (Arezzo) Caisra (Caere or modern Cerveteri) Clevsin, (Clusium or modern Chiusi) Curtun (modern Cortona) Perusna (Perugia) Pupluna (Populonium) Veii Tarchna (Tarquinii or modern Tarquinia-Corneto) Vetluna (Vetulonia) Felathri (Volaterrae or modern Volterra) Velzna (Volsinii, presumed ...

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Those who subscribe to an Italic foundation of Rome, followed by an Etruscan invasion, typically speak of an Etruscan “influence” on Roman culture; that is, cultural objects that were adopted at Rome from neighboring Etruria. The prevalent view today is that Rome was founded by Etruscans and merged with Italics later. In that case Etruscan cultural objects are not influences but are a heritage. The main criterion for deciding whether an object originated at Rome and travelled by influence to the Etruscans, or descended to the Roma ...

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The cities that composed the Etruscan Dodecapoli or league of "twelve cities" has no completely authoritative roster. Those Etruscan cities most often included (with their more familiar Latin and Italian equivalents) are: Arretium (Arezzo) Caisra (Caere or modern Cerveteri) Clevsin, (Clusium or modern Chiusi) Curtun (modern Cortona) Perusna (Perugia) Pupluna (Populonium) Veii Tarchna (Tarquinii or modern Tarquinia-Corneto) Vetluna (Vetulonia) Felathri (Volaterrae or modern Volterra) Velzna (Volsinii, presumed ...

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Etruscan civilization, Etruscan civilization - Language, Etruscan civilization - Collapse of Etruscan politics, Etruscan civilization - Influence, Etruscan civilization - Some Etruscan cities, Etruscan civilization - Some Etruscan rulers, Etruscan civilization - Bibliography

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On the one hand the Etruscans were said in legend to have come from Anatolia, either Lydia or Troy, where they must have been urbane and international. On the other, they came from an indigenous people of Italy practicing the relatively unsophisticated and rural Villanovan culture. The poet Virgil said in the Aeneid that Trojans fled to the Italian penninsula. If they called themselves Rasenna, there is no obvious connection between that name and Etrusci or Tyrrheni. These origins are mysterious, being apparently contradictory. Etruscan ci ...

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