The Etruscans in the Modern Imagination - Volume 85

The Etruscans, a revenant and unusual people, had all but disappeared by the start of the Christian era. Sam Solecki chronicles their unexpected return to the intellectual and cultural history of the west, beginning with eighteenth-century scholars, collectors, and archaeologists, to provide a fascinating meditation on cultural transmission between ancient and modern civilizations.

About the author

Sam Solecki is professor emeritus at the University of Toronto and the author of A Truffaut Notebook.

Summary

The Etruscans, a revenant and unusual people, had all but disappeared by the start of the Christian era. Sam Solecki chronicles their unexpected return to the intellectual and cultural history of the west, beginning with eighteenth-century scholars, collectors, and archaeologists, to provide a fascinating meditation on cultural transmission between ancient and modern civilizations.

Product details

• Authors: Sam Solecki
• Publisher: Mcgill-Queen's University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2022
• EAN: 9780228014638
• ISBN: 978-0-228-01463-8
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 216 mm x 46 mm
• Weight: 658 g
• Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in the; McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies