. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. < z o THE BEGINNINGS OF ROMEextent of their empire, namely, the sixth and early fifth centuriesB c. Their plastic work was mostly in terra-cotta, for thenative marbles do not seem to have been quarried. Some oftheir terra-cotta coffins, adorned with conventional portraits ot. Etruscan Fresco : Head of Hercules. the deceased and finished off by the application of pamt. showconsiderable technical skill, but always that strange grotesquespirit * From all accounts these Etruscans were a superstitiousand cruel race. It wa
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. < z o THE BEGINNINGS OF ROMEextent of their empire, namely, the sixth and early fifth centuriesB c. Their plastic work was mostly in terra-cotta, for thenative marbles do not seem to have been quarried. Some oftheir terra-cotta coffins, adorned with conventional portraits ot. Etruscan Fresco : Head of Hercules. the deceased and finished off by the application of pamt. showconsiderable technical skill, but always that strange grotesquespirit * From all accounts these Etruscans were a superstitiousand cruel race. It was from them that the Romans learnttheir bloody craft of divination by the inspection of theentrails of newly slain victims, and there is little doubt that thevictims had not always been the lower animals. We are toldthat the insignia of royalty at Rome-the toga with scarlet * Plate 7. 21 THE GRANDEUR THAT WAS ROMEor purple stripes, the toga with purple border, the sceptre ofivory, the curule chair, the twelve lictors with their axes inbundles of rods—were borrowed from the Etruscans. Thusit seems that the ancient garb of the Roman citizen, a tuniccovered by a long mantle or toga, a costume which is
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