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Title: Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
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Publisher: Boston, Ginn & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Wall-Painting of an Etruscan Banquet. (From an Etruscan tomb of the fifth century b.c. This cut illustrates, among otherthings, the state of art among the Etruscans at that early date. Banquetingscenes are favorite representations on Etruscan tombs, sarcophagi and funeralurns. The participators were represented in the height of social enjoymentto symbolize the bliss on which their spirits had entered. — Dennis, Citiesand Cemeteries of Etruria, vol. i. p. 445.) ing race in the peninsula. Numerous art remains, rock-cut tombs, fragments of walls, massive dikes to keep backthe sea, and long drainage tunnels piercing the sides of ITALY AND ITS EARLY INHABITANTS. hills, show the advance in civilization that they had madeat a very remote date. Certain elements in their culture,as for instance the alphabet they used, lead us to believe
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Ruined Temples at P^stum. (Paestum was the Greek Posidonia, in Lucania. These ruins form the most note-worthy existing monuments of the early Greek occupation of Southern Italy.) that they had learned much from the Greek cities in South-ern Italy. The Etruscans in their turn became the teachersof the early Romans and imparted to them at least someminor elements of civilization, including hints in the artof building and various religious ideas and rites (par. 23).Some five hundred years before our era, the Gauls cameover the Alps, pressed the Etruscans out of Northern Italy,in which quarter this people had in very early timesformed a confederacy like that they established in Etruria,and settling in those regions, became the most formidableenemies of the infant republic of Rome (par. 68). IO ROME AS A KINGDOM. The Greeks began their settlement in lower Italy duringthe age of Greek colonial expansion, that is to say, towardsthe end of the eighth century b.c. Among the cities thatthey fou

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