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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.785#0021
ETRUSCAN AMPHORA.
INTRODUCTION.
Antiquarian research, partaking of the quickened energy
of the nineteenth century, has of late years thrown great
light on the early history of Italy. It has demonstrated, in
confirmation of extant records, that ages before the straw hut of
Romulus arose on the Palatine, there existed in that land a
nation far advanced in civilization and refinement—that Borne,
before her intercourse with Greece, was indebted to Etrttria
for whatever tended to elevate and humanise her, for her chief
lessons in art and science, for many of her political, and most
of her religious and social institutions, for the conveniences and
enjoyments of peace, and the tactics and appliances of war—for
almost everything in short that tended to exalt her as a nation.
INTRODUCTION.
Antiquarian research, partaking of the quickened energy
of the nineteenth century, has of late years thrown great
light on the early history of Italy. It has demonstrated, in
confirmation of extant records, that ages before the straw hut of
Romulus arose on the Palatine, there existed in that land a
nation far advanced in civilization and refinement—that Borne,
before her intercourse with Greece, was indebted to Etrttria
for whatever tended to elevate and humanise her, for her chief
lessons in art and science, for many of her political, and most
of her religious and social institutions, for the conveniences and
enjoyments of peace, and the tactics and appliances of war—for
almost everything in short that tended to exalt her as a nation.