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===Etruscans=== ...ent=Paperback. While it doesn't specifically deal with Classical Rome, the Etruscans were important contributors to the Roman conception of death, religion, and

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... the sepulchral registration of a man, Lars Dupleio, is still written with etruscans characters, but those of his daughter and his nephew appear already compile

... the working man, a very important aspect to the Ancient Roman people. The Etruscans brought this Goddess to Rome as part of the Capitoline Triad of Iuppiter, I

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

...ivine will, he never once mentions this practice as in existence among the Etruscans.<ref>Cic. de Div. i.41, ii.35, 38; de Nat. Deor. ii.4</ref>The belief that

...s the supposed ancestor of the Romans, so Odysseus was the ancestor of the Etruscans and Latins. Latinus, the eponymous ancestor legendary hero of the Latins, w

... did -- how they saved Rome from falling into the hands of her enemies the Etruscans. Horatius Codes, Spurius Lartius and Herminius lived in the days when Rome ...and cities, between one or other of which there was nearly always war. The Etruscans were the most powerful, and very eager they were to conquer the Romans: ind

... The roots of the cursus sank in the royal age, probably imported from the Etruscans. The Romans exalted the public career so that you often find all the diffe

...ea of gods as anthropomorphized beings came later, with the influence from Etruscans and Greeks, whose gods had human form. Some of the Roman Gods are at least

... or ditch; [[Plutarch]] describes the custom of a ''mundus'' as being of [[Etruscans|Etruscan]] origin, and states that it was used as a place where first-fruit

...um (now Capua). Volturnum was a settlement of the Oscans, and later of the Etruscans. The city is situated on the Volturno (anc. Voluturnus) river, which appare

...vering the head with a veil when performing sacrifices. It's said that the Etruscans by contrast did things 'Greek-style' (ie. ''capite aperto'' or “with bare

Furrina is of ancient origins, likely from the time of the [[Etruscans]]. She began as a Goddess of a sacred grove and spring (''lucus'') on Janic

...ant. The first gladiators were part of a sacrificial rite adopted from the Etruscans. First introduced to Rome in 264 BC, the sons of Junius Brutus honored thei

In the plan of their temples the Romans originally followed the Etruscans. The ground-plan of the Etruscan temple was nearly a square, the ratio of t

Captured by Etruscans

...s this greek-latin debt that we owed these words and these people. Or that Etruscans will come then back in our memoria.

...ivine will, he never once mentions this practice as in existence among the Etruscans <ref>Cic. de Div. I.41, II.35, 38; de Nat. Deor. II.4</ref>. The belief tha

...us]] and [[Vertumnus]] were also adopted respectively from the Sabines and Etruscans.

...stroying [[Troy]] or Atlantis with a flood. This tradition is due to the [[Etruscans]], but is also widely attested in Greece as well, for instance, in Homer.

...were not much used by Romans, but possibly because of influence from the [[Etruscans]], Romans were attentive to signs in nature.

...n Aeneas at the urging of Juno, who was aligned with King Mezentius of the Etruscans and Queen Amata of the Latins. Aeneas' forces prevailed. Turnus was killed

...moerium”; but it is rather a “circamoerium.” For the space which the Etruscans of old, when founding their cities, consecrated in accordance with auguries

...um (now Capua). Volturnum was a settlement of the Oscans, and later of the Etruscans. The city is situated on the Volturno (anc. Voluturnus) river, which appare

:'''Goddess of the Etruscans'''

:A legendary hero from the earliest history of Rome. When the Etruscans lay siege to Rome and occupied the Ianiculus Hill, Cocles defended the brid :The Roman appellation of the nine great gods of the Etruscans.