Antiquities Circle Lecture - The Etruscans

A Virtual Antiquities Circle Lecture presented by Dr. Branko van Oppen, on February 21, 2021. In this talk, Dr. van Oppen looks at the Etruscans.

The Etruscans are a fascinating ancient people about whom much remains a mystery. They inhabited an area of Northern Italy (present-day Tuscany and beyond). It is only through their often-violent contact with the Romans that we know something about their history. They have left no historical accounts of their own, or at least none have survived. Etruscan culture is best known from tombs and temples. Much of the preserved Etruscan material culture is therefore of funerary or religious nature.

The permanent collection at the Tampa Museum of Art includes an assortment of 50 Etruscan objects covering a period of about 500 years (ca. 750-250 BCE). Together, these fifty objects illustrate aspects of four main themes: myth and religion; jewelry; pottery; everyday human and animal life as well as death.

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