Chapter 6

Question 1

The Etruscans:

Answer 1

• were people who occupied the middle of Italy in early Roman days.
• Tomb of the Augurs
• It is one of the thousands of underground tombs, laboriously carved out of the bedrock at the important Etruscan city of Tarquinia, at the time when the Greeks still buried their dead in simple graves.
• Territory between the Arno and Tiber rivers of central Italy
• Tuscany, the land of the people the Romans called Etrusci or Tusci
• During the 8th and 7th Centuries bc, the Etruscans, as skilled seafarers, enriched themselves through trade abroad.

Question 2

Sarcophagus with reclining couple, from Banditaccia necropolis, Cervetecia, Italy, 520b.c.:

Answer 2

• Arranged for the murder of their spouses
• Married each other and plotted the overthrow and death of Tullias father
• Sarcophagus from a Cervetecia;tomb in the form of a husband and wife reclining on a banqueting couch
• emphasis on proportion and balance, is the manner in which the Cerverteri sculptor rendered the upper and lower parts of each body
• The artist shaped the legs only summarily, and the transition to the torso at the waist is unnatural. The sculptors interest focused on the upper half of the figures, especially on the vibrant faces and gesticulating arms.