New perspectives on Etruria and early Rome : in honor of Richard Daniel De Puma / edited by Sinclair Bell and Helen Nagy.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2009.
Description
xxiv, 305 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.

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    Series
    Wisconsin studies in classics. [More in this series]
    Summary note
    With contributions from international scholars, this text provides a panoramic view of ancient cultures in Italy. Shedding light on the evidence of well-known and excavated sites and the objects they have yielded, this collection follows the first archaeological traces of the rise of ancient Italy.
    Notes
    "In surveying recent developments in Etruscan and Roman studies, the contributors to this collection pay tribute to an individual who has made a significant and influential contribution to both fields: Richard De Puma"--Pref.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
    Action note
    Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
    Contents
    • Between Crustumerium and Eretum : observations on the First Iron Age phases and the finds from the Archaic period / Paolo Togninelli
    • Civitalba and Roman programs of commemoration and unification / Peter J. Holliday
    • Etruscan cults in Roman times : the strange ruins of Chianciano Terme / David Soren and Erin Nell
    • The gods in the circus / Carin Green
    • Far from Etruria : Etruscan fakes in Japan / Stephan Steingraber
    • "Etruscan" gold from Cerveteri (and elsewhere) in the University of Pennsylvania Museum / Jean MacIntosh Turfa
    • From Crustumerium : preventing looting by exchanging loans for preservation of cultural patrimony / Francesco di Gennaro
    • How did painters create near-exact copies? : notes on four center paintings from Pompeii / John R. Clarke
    • Is linear perspective necessary? / Jocelyn Penny Small
    • Some thoughts on the Baubo gesture in classical art / Larissa Bonfante
    • One more Etruscan couple at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Marjalla Nielsen
    • Dueling warriors on two Etruscan bronze mirrors from the fifth century B.C.E. / Alexandra A. Carpino
    • The blood of animals : predation and transformation in Etruscan funerary representation / P. Gregory Warden
    • The deified deceased in Etruscan culture / Giovannangelo Camporeale
    • On the origin of Vanth : death harbingers and banshees in the Etruscan and Celtic worlds / Anthony Tuck
    • Guests, hosts, and politics at Herculaneum / Carol C. Mattusch
    • The lost Iter Hetruscum of Athansius Kircher (1665-78) / Ingrid Rowland
    • Larthi, Turms, and Vel : real Etruscans in modern fiction / Ingrid Edlund-Berry.
    ISBN
    • 9780299230302 (hardback : alk. paper)
    • 0299230309 (hardback : alk. paper)
    LCCN
    ^^2008040623
    OCLC
    259715940
    RCP
    H - S
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