. Etruscan tomb paintings, Their subjects and significance. omes as preposterous as that ofmatrons is certain (fig. 25).^ But proof is furnished by the tomb-paintings the Tomba degli Scudi at Corneto, discovered in 1870,and, to judge by the style, dating from the end of the fifthcentury b. c, the wife (as might be expected) is picturedsitting with her husband, who is reclining on the couch with ^ Friedlander, Sittengeschichte Rotns scandaleuses. Of equal value is his i. 472, 478, 493 f. information that the Sybarites loved ^ Corpus inscriptionum Etruscarum, the Etruscans because
. Etruscan tomb paintings, Their subjects and significance. omes as preposterous as that ofmatrons is certain (fig. 25).^ But proof is furnished by the tomb-paintings the Tomba degli Scudi at Corneto, discovered in 1870,and, to judge by the style, dating from the end of the fifthcentury b. c, the wife (as might be expected) is picturedsitting with her husband, who is reclining on the couch with ^ Friedlander, Sittengeschichte Rotns scandaleuses. Of equal value is his i. 472, 478, 493 f. information that the Sybarites loved ^ Corpus inscriptionum Etruscarum, the Etruscans because of their luxu- 3858, 3860. riousness (Athenaeus xii. 519 b). It The Etruscan character for im- is regrettable that Theophrastus work morality is chiefly due to Theopompus on the Etruscans is lost; it would (Jragm. 222 in Miiller, Fragm. hist, have provided information of quite Graec. i. p. 315), but he gives similar a different character. (Cp. the Scholia descriptions of the Thessalians, and to Pindar, Pythia ii. 3.)seems to have specialized in chroniques. Fig. 26. PICTURE FROM THE TOMBA DEGLI SCUDI AT CORNETO
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