Debating Orientalization - Multidisciplinary Approaches to Change in the Ancient Mediterranean Volume 10 - Corinna Riva
The Orientalizing Period in Etruria: Sophisticated Communities
Debating Orientalization - Multidisciplinary Approaches to Change in the Ancient Mediterranean Volume 10 - Corinna Riva
Corinna Riva [+]
University College London
Corinna Riva is Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology at University College London. From 2000-2005 she was a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford, and served as temporary Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology at the Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow in 2005-2006. Since 2002, she has been co-director of the Upper Esino Valley Survey (Marche, Italy). She is the author of The Urbanization of Etruria (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
Description
This chapter seeks to provide a critical look at current research on the Orientalizing period in Etruria and in particular to question the arguments around kingship that current scholarship supports. Moreover, it aims to analyze whether we can still speak of an Orientalizing phenomenon in Etruria and if so, in what ways.