The Etruscan World brings to life the culture and material past of the Etruscans and highlights key points of development in research, making it essential reading for researchers, academics and students of this fascinating civilization.

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• List of contributors
• Preface - Jean MacIntosh Turfa
• Maps
• Introduction: time to give the Etruscans their due - Jean MacIntosh Turfa
• PART I: ENVIRONMENT, BACKGROUND AND THE STUDY OF ETRUSCAN CULTURE
• 1 Etruscan environments - Ingele M. B. Wiman
• 2 Massimo Pallottino's “Origins” in perspective - Giovanna Bagnasco Gianni
• 3 Etruscan origins and the ancient authors - Dominique Briquel
• 4 Fleshing out the demography of Etruria - Geof Kron
• PART II: THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF ETRURIA
• 5 The Villanovan culture: at the beginning of Etruscan history - Gilda Bartoloni
• 6 Orientalizing Etruria - Maurizio Sannibale
• 7 Urbanization in southern Etruria from the tenth to the sixth century BC: the origins and growth of major centers - Robert Leighton
• 8 A long twilight: “Romanization” of Etruria - Vincent Jolivet
• 9 The last Etruscans: family tombs in northern Etruria - Marjatta Nielsen
• PART III: ETRUSCANS AND THEIR NEIGHBORS
• 10 The western Mediterranean before the Etruscans - Fulvia Lo Schiavo
• 11 The Nuragic heritage in Etruria - Fulvia Lo Schiavo and Matteo Milletti
• 12 Phoenician and Punic Sardinia and the Etruscans - Rubens D'Oriano and Antonio Sanciu
• 13 Etruria and Corsica - Matteo Milletti
• 14 The Faliscans and the Etruscans - Maria Anna De Lucia Brolli and Jacopo Tabolli
• 15 Etruria on the Po and the Adriatic - Giuseppe Sassatelli and Elisabetta Govi
• 16 Etruscans in Campania - Mariassunta Cuozzo
• 17 Etruria Marittima, Carthage and Iberia, Massalia, Gaul - Jean Gran-Aymerich
• PART IV: ETRUSCAN SOCIETY AND ECONOMY
• 18 Political systems and law - Hilary Wills Becker
• 19 Economy and commerce through material evidence: Etruscan goods in the Mediterranean world and beyond - Jean Gran-Aymerich with Jean MacIntosh Turfa
• 20 Mothers and children - Larissa Bonfante
• 21 Slavery and manumission - Enrico Benelli
• 22 The Etruscan language - Luciano Agostiniani
• 23 Numbers and reckoning: A whole civilization founded upon divisions - Daniele Maras
• PART V: RELIGION IN ETRURIA
• 24 Greek myth in Etruscan culture - Erika Simon
• 25 Gods and demons in the Etruscan pantheon - Ingrid Krauskopf
• 26 Haruspicy and Augury: Sources and procedures - Nancy T. de Grummond
• 27 Religion: the gods and the places - Ingrid Edlund-Berry
• 28 Archaeological evidence for Etruscan religious rituals - Simona Rafanelli
• 29 Tarquinia, sacred areas and sanctuaries on the Civita plateau and on the coast: “monumental complex,” Ara della Regina, Gravisca - Giovanna Bagnasco Gianni
• 30 The sanctuary of Pyrgi - Maria Paola Baglione
• 31 Orvieto, Campo della Fiera - Fanum Voltumnae - Simonetta Stopponi
• 32 Worshiping with the dead: new approaches to Etruscan necropoleis - Stephan Steingräber
• 33 The imagery of tomb objects (foreign and imported) and its funerary relevance - Tom B. Rasmussen
• PART VI: SPECIAL ASPECTS OF ETRUSCAN CULTURE
• 34 The science of the Etruscans - Armando Cherici
• 35 The architectural heritage of Etruria - Ingrid Edlund-Berry
• 36 Etruscan Town Planning and Related Structures - Claudio Bizzarri
• 37 Villanovan and Etruscan Mining and Metallurgy - Claudio Giardino
• 38 Technology, ideology, warfare and the Etruscans before the Roman conquest - David George
• 39 The art of the Etruscan armourer - Ross H. Cowan
• 40 Seafaring: shipbuilding, harbors, the issue of piracy - Stefano Bruni
• 41 Princely chariots and carts - Adriana Emiliozzi
• 42 The world of Etruscan textiles - Margarita Gleba
• 43 Food and drink in the Etruscan world - Lisa C. Pieraccini
• 44 The banquet through Etruscan history - Annette Rathje
• 45 Etruscan spectacles: Theater and sport - Jean-Paul Thuillier
• 46 Music and musical instruments in Etruria - Fredrik Tobin
• 47 Health and medicine in Etruria - Jean MacIntosh Turfa, with Marshall J. Becker
• PART VII: ETRUSCAN SPECIALTIES IN ART
• 48 Foreign artists in Etruria - Giovannangelo Camporeale
• 49 The phenomenon of terracotta: architectural terracottas - Nancy Winter
• 50 Jewelry - Françoise Gaultier
• 51 Engraved Gems - Ulf R. Hansson
• 52 The Etruscan painted pottery - Laura Ambrosini
• 53 The meanings of Bucchero - Richard Daniel De Puma
• 54 Etruscan terracotta figurines - Helen Nagy
• 55 Portraiture - Alexandra Carpino
• 56 Landscape and illusionism: qualities of Etruscan wall paintings - Helen Nagy
• 57 The bronze votive tradition in Etruria - Margherita Gilda Scarpellini
• 58 Mirrors in art and society - Richard Daniel De Puma
• 59 Science as art: Etruscan anatomical votives - Matthias Recke
• 60 Animals in the Etruscan household and environment - Adrian P. Harrison
• PART VIII: POST-ANTIQUE RECEPTION OF ETRUSCAN CULTURE
• 61 Annius of Viterbo - Ingrid Rowland
• 62 The reception of Etruscan culture: Dempster and Buonarotti - Francesco De Angelis
• 63 Modern approaches to Etruscan culture - Marie-Laurence Haack