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Etruscology
Etruscology is the study of the ancient civilization of the Etruscans in Italy (Etruria), which was incorporated into an expanding Roman Empire during the period of Rome's Middle Republic. Since the Etruscans were politically and culturally influential in pre-Republican Ancient Rome, Rome, many Etruscologists are also scholars of the History of Rome, history, Classical archaeology, archaeology, and Culture of ancient Rome, culture of Rome. The premier scholarly journal of Etruscan Studies is . A recent addition to the scholarly literature is the American journal, ''Etruscan Studies: Journal of the Etruscan Foundation'', which began publication in 1994. A more informal organ is ''Etruscan News'' and the accompanying cyber-publication ''Etruscan News Online''. Thomas Dempster (1570–1625), Scottish scholar and historian, is perhaps the godfather of Etruscology. Under the patronage of Grand Duke Cosimo II of Etruria, Dempster researched and wrote (from Latin: ''The Seven Books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Etruscans
The Etruscan civilization ( ) was an ancient civilization created by the Etruscans, a people who inhabited Etruria in List of ancient peoples of Italy, ancient Italy, with a common language and culture, and formed a federation of city-states. After adjacent lands had been conquered its territory covered, at its greatest extent, roughly what is now Tuscany, western Umbria and northern Lazio, as well as what are now the Po Valley, Emilia-Romagna, south-eastern Lombardy, southern Veneto and western Campania. A large body of literature has flourished on the origins of the Etruscans, but the consensus among modern scholars is that the Etruscans were an indigenous population. The earliest evidence of a culture that is identifiably Etruscan dates from about 900 BC. This is the period of the Iron Age Villanovan culture, considered to be the earliest phase of Etruscan civilization, which itself developed from the previous late Bronze Age Proto-Villanovan culture in the same region, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sybille Haynes
Sybille Edith Haynes, (''née'' Overhoff; born 3 July 1926) is a British expert on Etruscology. She grew up and was educated in Germany and Austria before moving to the UK in the 1950s. She worked with Etruscan artefacts at the British Museum for many years as well as publishing numerous books, for fellow scholars and also for the general public. In the 1980s she joined the Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Early life and education Born Sybille Overhoff on 3 July 1926 to Edith ''née'' Kloeppel, her German mother, and Julius Overhoff, her Austrian father, she was one of five siblings including her twin sister Elfriede Knauer, an archaeologist.American Philosophical Society biography of Elfriede Knauer She grew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massimo Pallottino
Massimo Pallottino (9 November 1909 in Rome – 7 February 1995 in Rome) was an Italian archaeologist specializing in Etruscan civilization and art. Biography Pallottino was a student of Giulio Quirino Giglioli and worked early in his career on the Temple of Apollo at Veii. In essence Pallottino created the modern discipline of Etruscology and trained many of its leading practitioners. He published a massive corpus of material during his career and established a research center in Rome, today known as ''C.N.R. per l'Archeologia etrusco-italica''. He was also influential in establishing the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi e Italici and its journal, ''Studi Etruschi''. His own work covered Etruscan art and culture, civilization, and language. One of his most influential works was the handbook ''Etruscologia'' originally published in 1942 in Milan, but today available in numerous languages and still consulted by scholars and students alike. Pallottino was a member of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Colonna (archaeologist)
Giovanni Colonna (born September 4, 1934) is a contemporary Italian scholar of ancient Italy and, in particular, the Etruscan civilization. Biography Colonna is an emeritus professor at the Sapienza University of Rome where he has taught since 1980. He took his first degree at Rome in 1957, studying under Massimo Pallottino. He studied further at Rome and Athens and was then archaeological superintendent of south Etruria from 1964 until 1972. He has carried out numerous fieldwork campaigns in Etruria (Blera, Bisenzio, Bolsena, Montefiascone, Tuscania, Cerveteri, Ladispoli, Veii) and in other locations (Arcinazzo Romano, Saepinum, valle del Sinello, Festòs). With his wife, Elena Di Paolo, he excavated the necropolis at Viterbo and published two volumes: ''Castel d’Asso'' (1970) and ''Norchia I'' (1978). He is well known for his work on the Etruscan site of Veii and the temple of Apollo at that site. He has also carried out extensive work at Pyrgi and is the author of numerous ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giulio Giglioli
Giulio Quirino Giglioli (25 March 1886 – 11 November 1957 in Rome, Italy) was an art historian of classical Roman and Etruscan art and was associated with Fascism in Italy. Giglioli was a student of and assistant to both Emanuel Löwy and Rodolfo Lanciani.Ridgway, F. R., "Giglioli, Giulio Quirino", in ''Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology''. Nancy Thomson de Grummond, ed., Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, (1996), v1, p502 He fought in World War I, during which time he published the newly discovered statue of Apollo from Veii in 1916. In the post-war years, he held positions at the Università di Roma, beginning in 1923. There, he served as professor of ancient topography as well as classical art history. He became a member of the city council in 1935. In the field, he excavated Etruscan sites and also worked on the Fascist projects in Rome, notably the excavations of the Forum of Augustus and the Mausoleum of Augustus. Since his work was carried out largely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Heurgon
Jacques Heurgon (25 January 1903 – 27 October 1995) was a French university, normalian, Etruscan scholar and Latinist, professor of Latin language and literature at the Sorbonne. Married to Anne Heurgon-Desjardins, founder in 1952, of the Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle, he was the father of , politician and historian, Catherine Peyrou and Edith Heurgon who continued the "Colloques of Cerisy". A member of the École française de Rome (1928–1930), he was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1969. Biography Coming from a family of Parisian jewelers, he studied at the lycée Condorcet, where he met poet Jean Tardieu, with whom he would correspond for twenty years. Entered in the École normale supérieure in 1923, he was received at the first rank of the agrégation de lettres. In 1926, he married the daughter of his former professor in khâgne, Paul Desjardins, who would organize at the abbaye de Pontigny the "", l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Istituto Nazionale Di Studi Etruschi Ed Italici
Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici (English: Institute for Etruscan and Italic Studies) is a cultural institution based in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. It was founded in 1925 with the aim of promoting and enhancing in Italy and worldwide studies on the Etruscan civilization and other peoples of ancient Italy. History Founded in 1925 with the name of "Comitato Permanente per l’Etruria" by the will of the Italian archaeologist Antonio Minto, renamed later as "Istituto Internazionale di Studi Etruschi" in 1932, "Istituto di Studi Etruschi ed Italici" in 1951, and finally in "Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici" in 1989. As stated in its 1989 statute, the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici "aims to promote, intensify and coordinate research and studies on the civilization of the Etruscans and subordinately of other peoples of ancient Italy. Publications Since 1927, one of the Institute's tasks has been the publication of the annual journal "St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo De Simone (linguist)
Carlo De Simone (22 November 1932 – 14 September 2023) was an Italian linguist, specialising in Ancient Greek and Latin texts and Etruscan epigraphs. He is best known for his research into Etruscan, Lemnian and Rhaetian languages. Biography De Simone studied comparative linguistics and archaeology at the University of Rome, where he was awarded a prize in 1955 with a thesis on the subject: "Le iscrizioni messapiche: cronologia e fonetismo". He obtained a scholarship to the University of Tübingen for the same discipline from the "Servizio di Scambio Accademico Tedesco" (DAAD) from 1955 to 1956, with Hans Krahe, for whom he was an assistant from 1961 to 1964. In November 1964, he was admitted as a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Tübingen, through his work on Greek contributions in the Etruscan language. From 1972 to 1973, he held the chair of comparative linguistics at the University of Vienna, then, from 1975 to 1980, at the University of P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Dennis (explorer)
George Dennis (21 July 1814 in Ash Grove, Hackney, Middlesex – 15 November 1898 in South Kensington, London) was a British explorer of Etruria; his written account and drawings of the ancient places and monuments of the Etruscan civilization combined with his summary of the ancient sources is among the first of the modern era and remains an indispensable reference in Etruscan studies. Early life George Dennis left school at the age of 15. He never went to college, and yet he interested himself in languages, studying ancient Greek and Latin on his own and eventually becoming a polyglot in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, modern Greek, Turkish and some Arabic. A strongly physical man as well, he often went for 40-mile hikes in the uplands of Scotland and Wales. He resolved to become an explorer; however, he worked mainly alone.Wellard dedicates Chapter Four, ''The Founder of English Etruscology'', to Dennis. This material comes from there. Solitary Explorer At age 22 De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helmut Rix
Helmut Rix (4 July 1926, in Amberg – 3 December 2004, in Colmar) was a German linguist and professor of the Sprachwissenschaftliches Seminar of Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany. He is best known for his research into Indo-European studies, Indo-European and Etruscan language, Etruscan languages, as well as for being the author of the hypothesis of Tyrrhenian languages. Biography Helmut Rix was born in 1926 in Amberg to a family of teachers. Following high school and conscripted service in the Kriegsmarine, German navy during World War II, he studied Indo-European studies, classical philology, and history at University of Würzburg, Wurzburg in 1946 and University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg from 1947. There he received his doctorate in 1950 with his dissertation ''Bausteine zu einer Hydronymie Alt-Italiens''. From 1951 he was assistant to Hans Krahe at University of Tübingen, Tübingen and from 1955 lecturer in Latin and Greek at the Lutheran Augustana Divinit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominique Briquel
Dominique Briquel (21 January 1946, Nancy) is a French scholar, a specialist of archaeology and etruscology. Briquel studied at the École Normale Supérieure from 1964 to 1969 and was a member of the École française de Rome from 1971 to 1974. Since 1974 he taught Latin at the École Normale Supérieure. From 1984 to 1996 he was a professor of Latin at the University of Burgundy in Dijon. Since 1992, he has been Director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études, in the department of historical and philological sciences and since 1996, professor of Latin at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne. His fields of research are the language and civilization of the Etruscans, as well as the oldest periods of Roman history. He is married to the CNRS research director and Syriac scholar Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet. Honours * corresponding members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. * foreign corresponding member of the Académie Royale de Belgique. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guglielmo Maetzke
Guglielmo Maetzke (Florence, 12 July 1915 – 19 March 2008) was an Italian archaeologist and etruscologist. A pupil of the Etruscologist Massimo Pallottino, he directed important excavation campaigns in Tuscany, Lazio, Campania and Sardinia. Biography In 1958 he founded the ''Soprintendenza archeologica per le province di Sassari e Nuoro'' (Archaeological Superintendence for the provinces of Sassari and Nuoro) in Sassari, of which he was the first director. From 1966 to 1980 he was director of the ''Soprintendenza alle antichità dell'Etruria'' (Superintendence of Antiquities of Etruria). He was also president of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici and president of the Accademia Etrusca of Cortona Cortona (, ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Arezzo, in Tuscany, Italy. It is the main cultural and artistic centre of the Val di Chiana after Arezzo. Toponymy Cortona is derived from Latin Cortōna, and from Etruscan language, Etr .... Publication ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
