The Etruscan Library
Etruscan Museums and Archeological Sites
Introduction
This "Etruscan Library" started off on Ancient Sites (sadly now off-line), and was first compiled by "Tuscus Sempronius" on that site. The references in the original library were used as a nucleus for this new library, and I gratefully acknowledge the previous contributions of Tuscus Sempronius to this project. If you have any suggestions or comments, please email me . I would welcome any recommendations , particularly for newer publications. Web Sites links here are published at the discretion of the author.
General Introductions
Sybille Haynes "Etruscan Civilization: A Cultural History" Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles 2000A new and very worthwhile introduction to the Etruscans. Excellent Illustrations (See Bryn Mawr Review)
Larissa Bonfante.(editor) Etruscan life and afterlife : a handbook of Etruscan studies. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, c1986. .
Time-Life
Publications.Etruscans: Italy's Lovers of Life. 1995. Lost Civilizations series.
Grant, Michael. 1980. The Etruscans. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson.
Macnamara, Ellen. 1991. The Etruscans. Harvard University Press.
G. Barker & T. Rasmussen, The Etruscans, 1998
L. Bonfante, Etruscan Life and Afterlife. A handbook of Etruscan Studies, 1986
M. Cristofani, The Etruscans, 1979
Macnamara, Ellen. Everyday Life of the Etruscans. (1987)
M. Pallottino, The Etruscans, 1975
Spivey, Nigel and Simon Stoddart. Etruscan Italy. London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1990.
Von Cles-Reden, Sibylle. The Buried People (A Study of the Etruscan world). Rupert Hart-Davis, London. 1955
O. W. von Vacano, The Etruscans in the Ancient World. St. Martin's Press, 1960
Strong, Donald Emrys. The early Etruscans. New York, Putnam, 1968.
Etruscan Art
Brendel, Otto J. Etruscan Art. New Haven and London: Yale University Press/Pelican History of Art, 1995. (See Bryn Mawr Review)
Mansuelli, G. A. The art of Etruria and early Rome. New York: Crown Publishers, 1965.
Richard Daniel De Puma, Jocelyn Penny Small, Murlo and the Etruscans: Art and Society in Ancient Etruria. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994 (See Bryn Mawr Review)
Moretti, Mario. The Art of the Etruscans. Harry N. Abrams, inc., New York. 1970.
Bloch, Raymond. Etruscan art. Grenwich, The Pallas Library of Art series. Connecticut: New York Graphic Society.
Richardson, Emeline. Etruscan Sculptures. The New American Library, New York and Toronto. 1966
Richardson, Emeline Hill. The Etruscans, their art and civilization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964.
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert) Sketches of Etruscan places and other Italian essays. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Vighi, Roberto. The New Museum of Villa Giulia. Rome: Tipgrafia Artistica A. Nardini, 1959.
Language
Bonfante, Giuliano and Larissa 1983. The Etruscan Language: An Introduction. New York and Manchester: New York University Press. Comprehensive, good bibliography, inscriptions, mirrors, short lexicon, grammar, etc.Bonfante, Larissa, *Etruscan*. Reading the Past, v. 8. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press/British Museum, 1990 (See Bryn Mawr Review)
Pfiffig, Ambros Josef, Die Etruskische Sprache, Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsansalt Graz-Austria, 1969- German language edition
Campbell, G.L., ed. 1991. "Etruscan." Compendium of the World's Languages,
Vol. 1. Routledge. Volume is plagued with errors, but sketch of Etruscan is still interesting and provocative in spite of this. Based on Pfiffig, Ambros
History
Titus Livius.The history of Rome.Translated by 5 different translators. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850.Sprenger, Maja and Gilda Bartoloni. The Etruscans : their history, art, and architecture. Photographs by Max and Albert Hirmer. Translated from the German and Italian by Robert Erich Wolf. H.N. Abrams, 1983.
John F. Hall, ed., Etruscan Italy. Etruscan Influences on the Civilizations of Italy from Antiquity to the Modern Era. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Museum of Art, 1996 [1997]. (Seth and Maurine D. Horne Center for the Study of Art, scholarly series.) (See Bryn Mawr Review)
Pallottino, Massimo. A History of Earliest Italy. Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press 1991.
Bloch, Raymond. The ancient civilization of the Etruscans. Translated from the French by James Hogarth. Ancient Civilizations Series. New York: Cowles Book Co, 1969
Culture
Banti, Luisa. 1973. The Etruscan Cities and Their Culture. [trans. Erika Bizzarri ]. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of CA Press.Bonfante, Larissa. 1975. Etruscan Dress. John Hopkins University Press.
Bonfante, Larissa, ed. 1986. Etruscan Life and Afterlife: A Handbook of Etruscan Studies. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
Cristofani, Mauro. 1979. The Etruscans: A New Investigation. [trans. Brian Phillips] London: Orbis Publishing Ltd.
Grant, Michael. 1980. The Etruscans. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson.
Historical Novels
Haynes, Sybille. 1987. The Augur's Daughter: A Story of Etruscan Life. Rubicon Press, U.K.Waltari, Mika. 1956. The Etruscan. trans. Lily Leino. G. P. Putnam's Sons.
Dated, But Still Worthwhile:
Hamblin, Dora Jane. 1975. The Etruscans. (The Emergence of Man Series). New York: Time-Life Books.Heurgon, Jacques. 1964. Daily Life of the Etruscans. La Vie Quotidienne chez les Etrusques. trans. James Kirkup. 1961. New York: Macmillan Co.
Keller, Werner. 1974. The Etruscans. A.A. Knopf. Translation from German of popular account by non-estruscologist.
Scullard, H. H. 1967. The Etruscan Cities and Rome. Thames and Hudson/ London and Southampton: The Camelot Press. Recently reissued.
Strong, Donald. 1968. The Early Etruscans. (Life in Ancient Lands series.
Edward Bacon, (ed.) G.P. Putnam. Dated popular account, which does not detract from wealth of detail about geography and climate, history, etc.
Von Cles-Reden, Sybille. 1955. The Buried People. Das Versunkene Folk. trans. C.M. Wodehouse. London: Rupert Hart-Davis.
Von Vacano, Otto-Wilhelm. 1960. The Etruscans in the Ancient World. (Die Etrusker in der Welt der Antike). trans. Ogilvie, Sheila Ann. London: Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd.
Wellard, James. 1973. The Search for the Etruscans. New York: Saturday Review Press.
Two Old Classics Reissued (various editions)
Lawrence, D. H., 1992. Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays. Elsewhere published as Etruscan Places). Simonetta De Filippis, ed. The Works of D. H. Lawrence. Cambridge University Press.Dennis, George. 1985. The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria. Pamela Hemphill, ed. Abridged edition. Princeton Univ. Press, NJ.
The Mother of Etruscan Bibliographies
Fay, George Emory. 1981. A Bibliography of Etruscan Culture and Archaeology. [1498-1981]. OCPS: Occasional Publications in Classical Studies, Monograph no. 1. University of Northern Colorado at Greeley. Two volumes: A-J and K-Z. Approximately 5000 entries over nearly five centuries.
Also Refer to Ancient Historical Sources
If you want to have a go at some Etruscan Word processing, try this Etruscan True Type Font. It is designed for PC's, but a Mac version can be provided on request. It comes as a zip file, and requires Winzip.
Etruscan Web Links
This section of the Etruscan library contains links to Etruscan sites. The pages pop up as separate windows. The objective is to categorise the links into different topics.
(Suggest a link by using my feedback link on the Glossary & Educational Resources Section)
GENERAL SITES ON THE RASNA
The Etruscans
A Good General Site: Follow Larth in his adventures (multilingual)
ETRUSCAN LANGUAGE SITES
Etruscan Glossary Online
Compilation and translations from French, Italian and Latin
by Rick Mc Callister and Silvia Mc Callister-Castillo. A comprehensive site, which gives extensive comparisons of Etruscan words with other languages. This link is currently (Nov 16 2001)down. I have left it in place in case it is restored.
Etruscan Dictionary by Damien Erwan Perrotin. A nice resource by a Breton author who thinks the French Language is only good for buying bread at the shop. The rest of the website is also very impressive, especially the essay on Etruscan and Mediterranean languages
Thanchvil Cilnei's Language Page
A Review of Etruscan Grammar - a translation from Dutch of Chapter 7 of "De Etrusken Spreken" by R.S.P. Beekes and L.B. van der Meer (Coutinho, Muiderberg 1991).
Thanchvil Cilnei's Page on the Liber Linteus
A Review of Etruscan Grammar - a translation from Dutch of Chapter 4 of "De Etrusken Spreken" by R.S.P. Beekes and L.B. van der Meer (Coutinho, Muiderberg 1991).
Thanchvil Cilnei's - Four Short Articles on Etruscan Language
Etruscan Language page from "The Mysterious Etruscans" (Marce Camitlnas)
The Liber Lintaeus
Gabor Z. Bodroghy's suberb site on the Liber Lintaeus of Zagreb
Etruscan Philology Online
- Mostly in Italian, but excellent for the inscriptions alone. See also the section on Alphabet and the Etruscan numbering system
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Etruscan Net
One of the best Etruscan bibliographies on the web.
Art,Artifacts & Architecture
Musei Toscani (list of museums where you can see Etruscan Art)
Museo Gregorio Etrusco I (Vatican)
Museo Gregorio Etrusco II (Vatican)
DISCUSSION GROUPS
RELIGION SITES
The Art of the Haruspex
Montovolo: perhaps an Ancient Oracular Centre
Julia Hayden's - Ancient World Web - Excellent resource - searchable
(a full list of Etruscan deities and their main functions)
HISTORY SITES
InfoRoma - A brief Etruscan page
The controversial "Etruscopolis" in Tarquinia
The Vulci Archeological area
MULTILINGUAL SITES
Rasenna (French)
Etruskerne (Danish)
Liber Lintaeus (Hungarian)
Etruscan Philology Online
The Etruscan Portrait (Russian)
The charter and home page of the CDPE
This is an incredibly detailed site on haruspicy, although I don't subscribe to the ritual side of it.
Site by Graziano Baccollini. An interesting new theory.
En fait c'est le seul site francophone généraliste existant actuellement sur les Étrusques. Ce site inclut la version électronique intégrale de l'ouvrage de Jean-René Jannot, - "A la rencontre des Etrusques,"
Denne hjemmeside er den første danske side helliget etruskerne.
Hungarian version of Gabor Z.Bodroghy's site on the Liber Linteus.
Questo sito è indirizzato sia agli studiosi specialisti in etruscologia (sulle iscrizioni etrusche) eccellente!
CDPE MEMBERS' CITY SITES