Ancient Mediterranean - Khan Academy

   

 

Key Ideas
* From the Tuscany area of Northern Italy before the Romans. Once the Romans gained significant power, the Etruscans were assimilated into the Roman Empire and eventually given Roman citizenship. 
* Influenced by the Archaic time period of the Greeks but avoid nudity.
* What we know of the Etruscans is from their tombs (tumuli) which are part of larger necropoli.
* Tumuli are round structures with a door leading to an interior that is brightly painted to reflect a domestic space.
* Death is focused on the celebration of life.
* Literary tradition is mostly lost. Vitruvius, an ancient historian wrote about the Etruscans' history.
* Temples are built of mud brick and stone, unlike the Greeks.
* Sculptures are created out of terra-cotta, stucco, and bronze.


  
Student Resources
PowerPoint - Key Ideas - Artworks List - Vocabulary - Q card Images - Homework assignment on the function of architecture
  * YouTube: Sarcophagus of the Spouses
* UNESCO video: Etruscan Necropolises 
  * Vimeo: The Capitoline Wolf
Differences between Etruscan and Greek Temples
  Vitruvius's writings on the Etruscan temple


 
Artwork List
  Temple of Minerva
Tomb of the Triclinium (Tomb of the Leopards)
Sarcophagus of the Spouses
Apollo from Veii
Capitoline Wolf


 
Vocabulary 
Necropolis
Stucco
Terracotta
Triclinium
Tufa
Tumulus (pl. tumuli)
Tuscan Order

    

   

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Thank you so much to Lynn Wilkinson, Mary McConnell, Valerie Park and Martha Kunz for all their quidance and resources.

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