Daily Life of the Etruscans - Softcover

Heurgon, Jacques

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1842125923 ISBN 13: 9781842125922

Verlag: Orion, 2002

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At the zenith of their power, the Etruscans controlled about a third of the peninsula and their kings held sway in Rome over a period of more than a hundred and fifty years. But after the expulsion of the Tarquins at the close of the sixth century BC they began to lose ground to the Romans; and their distinctive culture was gradually absorbed in the pan-Italic civilization which Rome established, until almost all clear record of it faded into obscurity. Heurgon seeks to lift the mystery which enshrouds almost every aspect of this civilization ¿ from the vexed question of their origins and curios non-Indo-European language to the enigma of their highly complex religion ¿ in which soothsaying played so important a part.

Biografía del autor

Jacques Heurgon was born in Paris in 1903. After attending the Ecole Normale he obtained his Docteur-ès-Lettres. He was Professor of Latin Literature and Language at the Sorbonne.

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• Verlag: Orion
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1842125923
• ISBN 13: 9781842125922
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320