Etruscan Funerary Rituals

Etruscan Funerary Rituals

Introduction

The paper aims to understand in the middles of Greek contemporaries and Roman successors, in which it has discovered that Etruscans were evidently a different ethnic faction. It has been remarked by Dionysus that Etruscans do not differ only in the language, but also in the way of life, overall it is entirely a different group of world. Their artistic version depicts different hidden phenomenon inside it. The society of Etruscan was not dominated nor centralized by a sole leader. Etruria's hilltop and towns seem to have enjoyed significant sovereignty. However, Etruscans speak the similar language, acts military practices, shared extremely similar religious rituals and social customs. It has been observed that religion is the key dominating part that has a crown on the everyday lifestyle of Etruscans.

Discussion Analysis

In the recent years, Etruscans has grown significantly with latest and cautiously documented excavations that can justly define them as an enigmatic and mysterious people. However, the association of Etruscan art to the Italic currents is the counterpart. The Greek course of Etruscan standards of representation and imagery in their shortly phases are greeted in the contemporary world. But the imagery of it influenced the art of Roman, which is greatly accepted but the confusions in its transmission are still on the way to be explored. It attempts to reveal certain rationality in the expressions of art in central Italy during the centuries.

Contrasts and Comparisons in Entombment

Thriving in the western Italy, Etruscans before the Roman Republic considered death as a celebration and the continuation of afterlife is one of the lavish and wealthy ways of lifestyle. Necropoleis, the land of the dead were hewn out of the stony hills. Every tomb is the duplication of Etruscan homes, within that archaeologist has been able to show a portrait of Etruscan's daily life. The funerals of Etruscan attributed gladiatorial “duels” as part of the celebrations to the death, and later on this practice was transmitted by the Romans that developed into the famous public spectacles. In the same way of Etruscans, the ancient Egyptians also buried their well-off dead people in high tombs, which were packed with wall paintings and artifacts that depict the life of their families in daily basis. Like Etruscans, the people of Egypt also had the same positive views about the life after death, which means both groups find these positives change, but on other hand their societies started worrying about it. The conception of life after death put fear in them, and provided the idea of evil spirits. In this way, Egyptians started to bury their deceased with the Book of the Dead, which contains certain spells to aid the departed soul. At contrast, Romans also buried their dead bodies on every provincial city or significant road, which has become their places of necropoleis. But we find an alteration in their view on afterlife that does not match with Etruscans. It has been argued by Georges Duby and Philippe Aries “No generally accepted doctrine taught ...