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1. The Etruscan Language: An Introduction, Revised Editon
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A revised, updated and expanded edition of the first concise introduction to the study of the Etruscan language in English. The standard historical reference and a popular textbook for students of languages, linguistics, ancient civilization and Etruscan studies. Provides the best collection of Etruscan inscriptions and texts currently in print. A substantial archeological introduction sets language and inscriptions in their historical, geographical and cultural context. The overview of Etruscan grammar, the glossary and chapters on mythological figures all incorporate the latest scholarship and innovative discoveries.2. Etruscan (Reading the Past)
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Before the rise of Rome, the Etruscans dominated central Italy commercially and culturally. Significantly, it was the Etruscans who passed the alphabet on to the Romans. But in the first century B.C., when they had become Roman citizens and begun to speak Latin, their own language died out.
Being of non-Indo-European origin, Etruscan is extremely difficult to interpret, and the difficulty is increased by the fact that no Etruscan literature survives. A certain amount has, however, been reconstructed from inscriptions. Here Dr. Bonfante sets out the rudiments of pronunciation and grammar as they are understood so far. Analyzing inscriptions on a wide variety of objects, including mirrors and gems, vases, sarcophagi and coins, she shows what these fragmentary writings contribute to our knowledge of this still largely mysterious people.
The book also contains a list of Etruscan personal names and a glossary of Etruscan vocabulary. A final chapter discusses the Agnone Tablet, an important inscription in Oscan, which was spoken in central Italy at the same time as Etruscan.
Being of non-Indo-European origin, Etruscan is extremely difficult to interpret, and the difficulty is increased by the fact that no Etruscan literature survives. A certain amount has, however, been reconstructed from inscriptions. Here Dr. Bonfante sets out the rudiments of pronunciation and grammar as they are understood so far. Analyzing inscriptions on a wide variety of objects, including mirrors and gems, vases, sarcophagi and coins, she shows what these fragmentary writings contribute to our knowledge of this still largely mysterious people.
The book also contains a list of Etruscan personal names and a glossary of Etruscan vocabulary. A final chapter discusses the Agnone Tablet, an important inscription in Oscan, which was spoken in central Italy at the same time as Etruscan.
3. The Etruscan Language
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4. DIZIONARIO DELLA LINGUA ETRUSCA: Dictionary Of The Etruscan Language (STUDI ETRUSCHI) (Italian Edition)
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LA LINGUA ETRUSCA non un mistero! Il Dizionario della Lingua Etrusca (sigla DETR) in assoluto il primo e fino ad ora l'unico vocabolario generale che sia stato pubblicato sulla lingua etrusca. La sua composizione ha richiesto all'Autore un lavoro che durato quasi 35 anni. Esso contiene circa 8.500 vocaboli, cio tutti quelli che sono stati rinvenuti in iscrizioni di vario genere fino al presente ed esattamente fino all'anno 2012. Di ciascuno di questi vocaboli nel DETR sono presentati tutti i dati che sono stati fino ad ora acquisiti dalla scienza linguistica, la quale opera sulla lingua etrusca da oltre 150 anni. L'Autore si lusinga di avere raccolto e presentato tutte le scoperte fatte dai numerosi linguisti precedenti e anche quelle - non poche - fatte da lui personalmente. Ovviamente molte cose della lingua etrusca risultano non ancora chiarite, tanto vero che il DETR per non pochi vocaboli riporta la dicitura "vocabolo di significato ignoto". Nel DETR risultano tradotte circa 2.000 iscrizioni etrusche, fra le quali alcune abbastanza lunghe, cio La scritta dell'Arringatore, La scritta di San Manno di Perugia, L'elogio funebre di Laris Pulenas, L'epitafio di Lartia Cilnia. Della Tabula Cortonensis, della Tabula Capuana e del Liber linteus della Mummia di Zagabria figurano tutti i singoli vocaboli, assieme con la traduzione di qualche frase relativa ad un determinato vocabolo. Nel DETR sono confluiti tutti i risultati delle opere che il prof. Pittau aveva in precedenza dedicato alla lingua etrusca e precisamente: La lingua dei Sardi Nuragici e degli Etruschi (1981); Lessico etrusco-latino comparato col nuragico (1984); Testi etruschi tradotti e commentati - con vocabolario (1990); Origine e parentela dei Sardi e degli Etruschi - saggio storico-linguistico (1995); La Lingua Etrusca - grammatica e lessico (1997);Tabula Cortonensis, Lamine di Pirgi e altri testi etruschi tradotti e commentati (2000), Dizionario della Lingua Etrusca (2005), Toponimi Italiani di origine etrusca (2006), Dizionario Comparativo Latino-Etrusco (2009), I grandi testi della Lingua Etrusca tradotti e commentati (2011), Lessico italiano di origine etrusca - 407 appellativi 207 toponimi (2011), Lessico della lingua etrusca (2013), 600 Iscrizioni Etrusche tradotte e commentate (2013). Di certo il DETR costituir una delle tappe fondamentali nella lunga storia degli studi relativi alla lingua etrusca. L'Autore nutre anche la fondata speranza che termini finalmente l'opinione largamente diffusa persino tra uomini di cultura e di cultura umanistica, secondo cui la lingua etrusca ancora tutta un "mistero", una lingua di cui non si sa nulla o quasi nulla, una lingua che attende ancora di essere "decifrata" del tutto e dall'inizio....5. Zikh Rasna: A Manual of the Etruscan Language and Inscriptions
6. The Etruscan Language: An Introduction 2nd (second) Revised Edition by Bonfante, Giuliano, Bonfante, Larissa published by Manchester University Press (2002)
7. A Companion to the Etruscans (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)
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This new collection presents a rich selection of innovative scholarship on the Etruscans, a vibrant, independent people whose distinct civilization flourished in central Italy for most of the first millennium BCE and whose artistic, social and cultural traditions helped shape the ancient Mediterranean, European, and Classical worlds.- Includes contributions from an international cast of both established and emerging scholars
- Offers fresh perspectives on Etruscan art and culture, including analysis of the most up-to-date research and archaeological discoveries
- Reassesses and evaluates traditional topics like architecture, wall painting, ceramics, and sculpture as well as new ones such as textile archaeology, while also addressing themes that have yet to be thoroughly investigated in the scholarship, such as the obesus etruscus, the function and use of jewelry at different life stages, Greek and Roman topoi about the Etruscans, the Etruscans reception of ponderation, and more
- Counters the claim that the Etruscans were culturally inferior to the Greeks and Romans by emphasizing fields where the Etruscans were either technological or artistic pioneers and by reframing similarities in style and iconography as examples of Etruscan agency and reception rather than as a deficit of local creativity
8. Etruscan Roman Remains in Popular Tradition
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This book contains many vivid and authentic tales of ancient Italian folklore, originating mainly in the Tuscany region.First published in 1892, Charles Godfrey Leland's chronicle lays bare the traditions, poetry and stories told among the peoples of Ancient and Medieval Italy. By profession, the author was not a cultural anthropologist or a classical scholar, but a journalist with a history of working with everyday newspapers in the 19th century United States. At the time a revived interest in ancient pagan and folklore traditions led Leland to travel to Europe, where he branched out to researching and transcribing the continent's myths and legends into books.
The tone we witness here is neither dry nor particularly rigorous in the academic sense: Leland's intention was never to conform to the precise scholarly principles of research and sources, but instead to present the pagan folklore to the popular audience in a manner easily enjoyed and digested by the reader. The price of Leland's colorful approach was his loss of authority in academic circles: something to which he paid little mind.
The stories in this lengthy volume approach the subject in an embracing manner: tales of witchcraft, of pagan Gods (including the prominent Goddess of Truffles revered by rural communities) and various cautionary tales of morality among those included in this book. There are many allusions to festivals and pagan offerings, and the pastoral Italian traditions surrounding food and drink. Frequent quotations of poetry and occasional imagery of the warm and rugged Italian countryside also populate this book.
Something of an underappreciated lost classic, Leland's exhaustive efforts to shed light onto Italy's enormous folk traditions are offered to the reader anew.