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Control # 1 hbl99075992
Control # Id 3 GCG
Date 5 20201201152835.0
Fixed Data 8 170912t20172017enka b 001 0 eng
ISBN 20    $a9781780238326
Obsolete 39    $a306414$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aAU@$beng$erda$cAU@$dOCLCF$dPIT$dEYM$dIQU$dJCU$dGCG
LC Call 50  4 $aDG223$b.S557 2017
ME:Pers Name 100 $aShipley, Lucy,$eauthor.
Title 245 14 $aThe Etruscans:$blost civilizations /$cLucy Shipley.
Tag 264 264  1 $aLondon, UK :$bReaktion Books,$c2017.
Tag 264 264  4 $cÃ2017
Phys Descrpt 300    $a213 pages :$billustrations (chiefly color ;$c23 cm.
Tag 336 336    $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
Series:Diff 490 $aLost civilizations
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 183-204) and index.
Note:Content 505 $aWhy do the Etruscans matter? -- Where is home? -- Ostrich eggs and oriental dreams -- Pots and prejudice -- Super rich, invisible poor -- To be a woman -- Safe as houses -- Sex, lies and Etruscans -- Wrapped up writings -- Listening to livers -- Facing oblivion.
Abstract 520    $aThe Etruscans were a powerful and influential civilization in ancient Italy. But despite their prominence, they are often misrepresented as mysterious - a strange, unknowable people whose language and culture have largely vanished. Lucy Shipley's new history of the Etruscans presents a different picture: of a people who traded with Greece and shaped the development of Rome, who inspired Renaissance artists and Romantic firebrands and whose influence is still felt strongly in the modern world. Covering colonialism and conquest, misogyny and mystique, Etruscan history is woven with the very latest archaeological evidence to provide a unique perspective on this enigmatic culture, revealing how much we now know, and how much still remains undiscovered. The book explores Etruscan culture through a series of stories that also reveal the biases and prejudices of the present day. It describes the journey of Etruscan objects from the point of their creation through the story of their use, loss, rediscovery and reinvention. From the wrappings of an Egyptian mummy displayed in a fashionable salon to the extra-curricular activities of a member of the Bonaparte family, it takes us on an extraordinary voyage through Etruscan archaeology that leads to surprising and intriguing places.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aEtruscans.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aHistory, Ancient.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aCivilization, Ancient.
SE:Ufm Title 830  0 $aLost civilizations (Reaktion Books (Firm))