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...n audiobook (ISBN 0786111771 ). Gordianus flees the hubbub of Rome for the Etruscan countryside, but finds he can't stay away from political intrigues.

| title=Etruscan Life and Afterlife: A Handbook of Etruscan Studies

| title=Etruscan Life and Afterlife : A Handbook of Etruscan Studies

*'''''-na, -nius''''': Etruscan; e. g.: Porsenna, Spurinna, Caecina, Perperna, Vibenna, Ergenna, Mastarna;

Influenced by their Etruscan, Greek and Phonecian neighbors, the Romans developed a complex state religi

...while the first examples of this extraordinary document were compiled with etruscan alphabet. ...ve been able to read their sacred books: did it deal with books written in Etruscan? We do not know.

...iad of Iuppiter, Mars and Quirinus. Tuscan craftsmen built the magnificent Etruscan Temple of Minerva and to honor them the area where they lived, at the foot

...is the Roman God of the sea and still waters. His name is derived from the Etruscan Nepthuns. His major festival is the ''Neptunalia'', celebrated in ''[[Roman

... the ''litatio'' was achieved. Sometimes the entrails could be examined in Etruscan fashion with the purpose of divination (''haruspicatio'').

...tins because they used the same methods as did Romans, as opposed to how [[Etruscan|Etruscans]], or [[Gaul|Gauls]], or [[Greek|Greeks]] took the auspices.

... any to inspired prophets and seers. They had, however, learned from the [[Etruscan]]s to attach much importance to extraordinary appearances in nature — ''P ...tantly appeals to the striking difference between the ''auspicia'' and the Etruscan system of divination; and, while he frequently mentions other nations which

...opean derivation, it is most likely the Latinised form of the agricultural Etruscan god Maris. Initially Mars was a Roman god of fertility and vegetation and a

...stern Mediterranean, such as Massalia (Marseille). Greek examples tempered Etruscan cult and belief to inform much of the Roman religion. There is a scholarly

...508 BCE. with P. Valerius Publicola, in which year he fought against the [[Etruscan]]s, who had attacked Rome under Porsena, and he is said by Dionysius to hav

The Latin name Sol is cognate to the Etruscan ''Usil'', Sabine ''Ausil'', Sanskrit ''Surya'', Germanic ''Sol'', and Greek ...elius means ''golden'', and seems to be connected to Usil, the Umbrian and Etruscan god of light, and to the Ozeul named in a Salian hymn. (William Warde Fowle

...ing, with a traditional date in the 8th century BC. It was the view of the Etruscan haruspices that a temple of Vulcan should be located outside the city,<ref>

...onsecrated with the words “ubi terra patrum, ibi patria” following the Etruscan rite, at the center of the new city the symbolic hole, the “mundus”, wh

... late! Proud Tarquin with Lars Porsenna of Clusium at the head of a strong Etruscan army stood there on the other side ready to cross the river. 'Not till the last beam is down!' answered Horatius, and another Etruscan fell to the ground before him.

...lsion of the king]] the Tarquins obtained the support of Lars Porsena, the Etruscan king of Clusium, who marched towards Rome with his army. Cocles challenged the Etruscan noblemen to single combat, but for a while there was nobody who would accep

...!) The Yale University Art Gallery has several tasteful rooms of Roman and Etruscan antiquities. They also have a portion of an excavated Mithraeum, which is a