. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. 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 * Pla
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. 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. Prehistoric Etruscan Pottery essentially the same as the chiton and himation of the Greeks,started as a fashion introduced by their more civilised northernneighbours. It seems clear also that the earliest Roman art, thedecoration of temples with painted terra-cotta ornaments, wasEtruscan in origin. Some of the earliest statues of the godsseem to have been painted, for we hear of a very ancientred Jupiter. Thus there is some probability that Rome passedthrough a period, perhaps in the sixth century, of alien ruleand alien civilisation. Remembering the cousinship betweenGreece and Etruria we shall find that Rome had been pre-pared for the reception of Greek culture in very earlytimes. 22
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