Etruscan in a sentence

Etruscan League According to legend, there was a period between 600 BC and 500 BC in which an alliance was formed among twelve Etruscan settlements, known today as the Etruscan League, Etruscan Federation, or Dodecapolis (in Greek Δωδεκάπολις).

Livy claims that his original Etruscan name was Lucumo, but since Lucumo (Etruscan Lauchume) is the Etruscan word for "King", there is reason to believe that Priscus' name and title have been confused in the official tradition.

A third set, the Libri Rituales, might have provided a key to Etruscan civilization: its wider scope embraced Etruscan standards of social and political life, as well as ritual practices.

Early Rome, in its conquest of Italy, assimilated the people of Etruria by replacing the Etruscan language with Latin, which led to the demise of that language and many aspects of Etruscan civilization.

Etruscan Aril The identifying name Aril is inscribed on two 5th-century Etruscan bronze items, a mirror from Vulci and a ring from an unknown site.

Etruscan had some influence on Latin, as a few dozen Etruscan words and names were borrowed by the Romans, some of which remain in modern languages, such as: columna (column), voltur (vulture), tuba (trumpet), vagina (sheath), populus (people).

Geographic distribution Maximum extent of Etruscan civilization and the twelve Etruscan League cities.

Giulio Mauro Facchetti, a researcher who has dealt with both Etruscan and Minoan, put forward this hypothesis again in 2001, comparing some Minoan words of known meaning with similar Etruscan words.

However, because of close cultural interaction, the Romans not only adapted the Etruscan alphabet to form the Latin alphabet but also borrowed some Etruscan words into their language, including persona "mask" and histrio "actor".

Like much in Roman culture, elements of the triumph were based on Etruscan and Greek precursors; in particular, the purple, embroidered toga picta worn by the triumphal general was thought to be derived from the royal toga of Rome's Etruscan kings.

Livy and Cicero were both aware that highly specialized Etruscan religious rites were codified in several sets of books written in Etruscan under the generic Latin title Etrusca Disciplina.

One by one Rome defeated both the persistent Sabines and the local cities, both those under Etruscan control and those that had cast off their Etruscan rulers.

Prayers in Etruscan were used in the Roman world by augurs and other oracles long after Etruscan became a dead language.

The true picture is rather more complicated, not least because the Etruscan cities were separate entities which never came together to form a single Etruscan state.

This is the heart of the Etruscan Empire (many would debate that the heart of the Etruscan Empire was actually in the Maremma Laziale, in an area also known as the Tuscia, where Tarquinia was "the chief of the twelve cities of Etruria".

According to plans, the nine-storey building will support the forthcoming Etruscan Square development and will include an 'active travel centre', a shopmobility centre and other services in addition to parking spaces.

According to Roderick Wyllie, a founding partner, the company is inspired by historic Italian gardens like the grotto-punctuated Villa Lante in central Italy and the Etruscan Pyramid of Bomarzo, an ancient rock altar in a forest.

Lead image: Arthur (Josh O’Connor), center, uses his divining rod to find buried Etruscan tombs, leading the sometimes hapless band of tombaroli (tomb robbers).

The religious of the Romans, which aimed at harmonizing the solar and lunar year, also originated with the Etruscans, and it seems as though it was first developed in the 6th century BC during the period of Etruscan domination of Rome.

Modena's Lambrusco DOC is a well-regarded lightly sparkling red wine with a complex flavour and history dating back to Etruscan times.