A Companion to the Etruscans [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Bell Sinclair
• Pubblicazione: Wiley, 2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (703 p.)
• Disciplina: 937/.501
• Soggetto topico: Etruscans; Art, Etruscan; Etruscan language; Regions & Countries - Europe; History & Archaeology; Italy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: CarpinoAlexandra A
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Title Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Maps; Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Map of Etruria; Introduction; REFERENCES; PART I: History; CHAPTER 1: Beginnings; 1. Introduction; 2. Origins and Dating; 3. The Transition from Prehistory; 4. The Villanovan Period; 5. Conclusion; REFERENCES; GUIDE TO FURTHER READING; CHAPTER 2: Materializing the Etruscans; 1. Introduction; 2. The Orientalizing Period (700-575); 3. The Archaic Period (575-480); 4. The Classical Period (480-323); 5. Conclusion; REFERENCES; GUIDE TO FURTHER READING ; CHAPTER 3: The Romanization of Etruria1. Introduction; 2. Roman Expansion; 3. Roman Infrastructures: Roads and Centuriation; 4. Roman Colonies; 5. Political Changes; 6. Romanization as Latinization; 7. The Hellenistic Gods; 8. Religion; 9. Funerary Iconography; 10. The Revival of the Etruscans; 11. Conclusion; REFERENCES; GUIDE TO FURTHER READING; PART II: Geography, Urbanization, and Space; CHAPTER 4: Etruscan Italy; 1. Introduction; 2. The Structural Landscape; 3. Conclusions; REFERENCES; GUIDE TO FURTHER READING; CHAPTER 5: City and Countryside; 1. Introduction; 2. Countryside ; 3. The Rural Landscapes of Urbanism4. Conclusion; REFERENCES; GUIDE TO FURTHER READING; CHAPTER 6: The Etruscans and the Mediterranean; 1. Introduction; 2. Sources of Evidence; 3. The Etruscans in the Mediterranean: A Chronological Survey; 4. Conclusions; REFERENCES; GUIDE TO FURTHER READING; CHAPTER 7: Urbanization and Foundation Rites; 1. Introduction; 2. From the Classicistic Prejudice to the Etruscan Non-polis; 3. Urban Networks and Diversity; 4. Urban Beginnings and Ritual Foundations; 5. At the Heart and on the Margins of Settlements; 6. Conclusion; REFERENCES; GUIDE TO FURTHER READING ; CHAPTER 8: Poggio Civitate1. Introduction; 2. Poggio Civitate during the Orientalizing Period (c.675-650 - c.600); 3. Poggio Civitate in the Archaic Period (c.600-550/530); 4. Conclusions; REFERENCES; GUIDE TO FURTHER READING; CHAPTER 9: Southern and Inner Etruria; 1. Introduction; 2. Orvieto/Volsinii/Velzna; 3. Tarquinia/Tarchna; 4. Cerveteri/Caere/Cisra(Greek Agylla); 5. Vulci; 6. Veio/Veii; 7. Sovana; 8. Conclusion; REFERENCES; GUIDE TO FURTHER READING; CHAPTER 10: Etruscan Domestic Architecture, Hydraulic Engineering, and Water Management Technologies; 1. Introduction ; 2. Domestic Architecture3. Hydraulics and Water Management; 4. The Manufacturing of Architectural Elements; 5. Conclusions; REFERENCES; GUIDE TO FURTHER READING; CHAPTER 11: Rock Tombs and the World of the Etruscan Necropoleis; 1. Introduction; 2. The Rock Tombs of Southern Etruria; 3. Case Study: The Rock Tombs at Pian di Mola in Tuscania; 4. Hellenistic Period Barrel-Vaulted Tombs in Etruria; 5. Conclusions; REFERENCES; GUIDE TO FURTHER READING; CHAPTER 12: Communicating with Gods; 1. Introduction: Ritual, Religion, and Space; 2. Sacred Space: Sanctuary, Altar, and Temple ; 3. Sacred Space and the Topography of Ritual
• Titolo autorizzato: A Companion to the Etruscans
• ISBN: 1-118-35495-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460474003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World