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A Boxing Match
Athletic competitions were Where to See
held at funerals. This vase, Etruscan Italy
which dates from about
500 BC, was made in Etruria,
but imitates the Greek
black-figure style of pottery.

Italy in 650 BC
Etruscan kingdoms
Greek colonies The musicians and the
dancer in the tomb painting
are painted with a realism
that indicates the influence
of Greek art.
Rock tombs like these at Sovana
The lyre was (p350) are common in the volcanic
made from a tufa of central Italy.
tortoiseshell Tuscany, Lazio and Umbria
and played with are rich in Etruscan remains,
a plectrum. especially tombs. There are huge
necropolises in Lazio at Cerveteri
and Tarquinia (p470). The latter
also has an important museum.
Other museums with major
collections of Etruscan art and
artifacts include Villa Giulia (p444)
and the Vatican’s Museo Gregoriano
Profano (p426) in Rome, the
Museo Archeolo gico in Florence
(p281), the Museo Nazionale in
Chiusi (p336) and the Museo
Guarnacci in Volterra (pp338–9).
Apollo of Veii
This magnificent
statue of Apollo (c.500 BC)
shows the stylized facial
features characteristic
of Etruscan art.

Bronze Mirror
Wealthy Etruscans lived
in great luxury. The women
used polished bronze mirrors Temple of Neptune
with engraved backs. This one This fine temple at Paestum
shows Helen of Troy and the (5th century BC) is a legacy of
goddess Aphrodite. Greek colonization of the south.

Mixing bowl, imported
509 BC Last Etruscan king, 390 BC Gauls
Tarquinius Superbus, expelled from Greece sack Rome; Capitol
from Rome; establishment 450 BC Roman saved thanks to
of Roman Republic law codified in alarm sounded
the Twelve Tables by cackling geese
600 BC 500 BC 400 BC
499 BC Battle of Lake Regillus; 474 BC Etruscan 396 BC Veii, a
Romans defeat alliance of fleet defeated by major Etruscan
Latins and Etruscans Greeks off Cumae; c.400 BC Gauls city in present- Relief of Capitoline
blow to Etruscan start to settle along day Lazio, falls geese, found in the
naval power valley of the Po to Rome Roman Forum

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