CLA 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Orientalizing Period, Italians, Villanovan Culture
7 Apr 2016
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Problems of origin: etruscans have let traces of a non indo-european language: this language is believed to have been spoken by pre-iron age folks (i. e. mediterranean substratum) Mediterranean substratum: populaions who inhabited italy before the. Indo-european speakers came over in the iron age. Etruscans called themselves rasenna; greeks called them tyrrhenians or tyrsenians; 750 bce a clearly deined etruscan culture emerged in etruria (i. e. tuscany: it was tyrrhenian culture with some special direct near eastern features. The literary tradiion of etruscans and rome portrays them as close rivals from foundaion of rome down to roman conquest in 264 bce. Archaeological evidence for etruscans were monumental tombs in cemeteries (necropolis = city of the dead) Two schools of thought on the origins of etruscans: naivist hypothesis: indigenous (naive) to italy, invasionist hypothesis: came from east greece (lydia) to etruria in 800 bce.
