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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Shipley, Lucy.     Subjects     Etruscans.     History, Ancient.     Civilization, Ancient.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Shipley, Lucy.       by title:      The Etruscans : lost...       by call number:      937.501 S557e     Search the Web     Shipley, Lucy.     Etruscans.     History, Ancient.     Civilization, Ancient.       MARC Display

The Etruscans : lost civilizations / Lucy Shipley. by Shipley, Lucy. Reaktion Books, 2017. Call #: 937.501 S557e Subjects Etruscans.   History, Ancient.   Civilization, Ancient. Series Lost civilizations (Reaktion Books (Firm)) ISBN:  9781780238326 (pbk.) Description:  213 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-204) and index. Contents:  Why do the Etruscans matter? -- Where is home? -- Ostrich eggs and oriental dreams -- Pots and prejudice -- Super rich, invisible poor -- To be a woman -- Safe as houses -- Sex, lies and Etruscans -- Wrapped up writings -- Listening to livers -- Facing oblivion. Summary:  "The Etruscans were a powerful and influential civilization in ancient Italy. But despite their prominence, they are often misrepresented as mysterious - a strange, unknowable people whose language and culture have largely vanished. Lucy Shipley's new history of the Etruscans presents a different picture: of a people who traded with Greece and shaped the development of Rome, who inspired Renaissance artists and Romantic firebrands and whose influence is still felt strongly in the modern world. Covering colonialism and conquest, misogyny and mystique, Etruscan history is woven with the very latest archaeological evidence to provide a unique perspective on this enigmatic culture, revealing how much we now know, and how much still remains undiscovered. The book explores Etruscan culture through a series of stories that also reveal the biases and prejudices of the present day. It describes the journey of Etruscan objects from the point of their creation through the story of their use, loss, rediscovery and reinvention. From the wrappings of an Egyptian mummy displayed in a fashionable salon to the extra-curricular activities of a member of the Bonaparte family, it takes us on an extraordinary voyage through Etruscan archaeology that leads to surprising and intriguing places."--From publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 937.501 S557e Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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