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Preface
Acknowledgments
Editor's Note
Introduction
Chapter 1 An Alphabet of Images: Greek and Etruscan Myth
Chapter 2 Families and Gender
Etruscan Women
Men and Women
The Etruscan Upper Class
The Use of Myths
Etruscan Mirrors: Reflections of Marriage
Etruscan Couples
Gestures of Love
Mothers, Myth, and Metaphor
Toddlers and Children
Women's Literacy
Chapter 3 What Happened to the Kouros?
The Celtic World
The Greek Model
Etruscan Transformations
Etruscan Ancestors
The Kouros Goes North
Celtic Burials
Chapter 4 Amber, Runes, and Situla Art
Amber
Runes
The Chiusi Connection and the Gauls
Situla Art
Situla Motifs
Chapter 5 The Final Journey
Tombs and Houses
Ancestors
Writing and the Dead
Angels and Demons
Erotic Art
Till Death Do Us Part
Boundaries, Human and Divine
Journey to the Afterworld
Blood for the Dead: Human Sacrifice
Afterlife and the Underworld
Chapter 6 Echoes from Classical Antiquity, Some of Them Etruscan
Etruscans in Rome
Christian Symbols
Romanesque Art
The Renaissance
Classical Nudity and Its Power
Conclusions and Controversies
References
Illustration Sources
Index

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• História da Europa
• História antiga: a c 500 CE
• História social e cultural

Etruscans; Cultural exchanges; Artistic results of economic demand; Sex in the art of the ancient Mediterranean; Death in the art of the ancient Mediterranean; Women in the ancient world; Religion; Mythology; Angels; Amber; Pottery; Sculpture; Gold; Frescoes; Mirrors; Furniture; Human sacrifice; Nudity; Northen Europe in antiquity; Trade in the ancient Mediterranean; Exchanges between the Near East and the Mediterranean; Social history; The Greeks and the Etruscans