This is the one channel that actually got me really into history. School made it so boring and bland but this is fantastic. Genuinely a great source of education and proof that it can be fun and interesting.
@@metatronyt Metatron can you do a video on modern and classical Latin (I don't specialized in linguistics so mind my ignorance on this subject I am more into battle tactics and military history). Such as if modern Latin speak can talk to a roman legionary.
@@bushyrho1674 ru-vid.com/show-UCIjGKyrdT4Gja0VLO40RlOwsearch?query=latin Metatron has made several already, have fun with your journey down the rabbit hole
The Chinese were probably the first to eat noodles, but several other cultures, including Etruscans, invented noodles on their own account. Making dough is one of the most basic ways of consuming cereals, as soon as you discovered how to make flour. It only makes sense that people were experimenting with it.
That would be the most awesome sleight of hand i had ever heard of. Well, why you are asking? Because the language of the rasenna is dead. Absolutely dead. We know only fragments of it.
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Hello, friend. My only comment: Here in Greece, the Etruscan civilisation was very well known through peace, commerce and war. A lot of influence between the two sides occured, mostly from our part to the Etruscans, but we had also Etruscan influence in some ways. And yes, the term "Italy" or "Italia" is really a very ancient word, introduced here in Greece by Etruscan merchants. The Italian peninsula is known as "Italian" even from the Classical Age. Have a nice time, you, the family and the girlfriend- and heads up in this time of pandemic.
In general, it's frustrating to think about all the languages that we will never know because they died with their people, but what I find especially frustrating is cases such as Etruscan where we have something like 50 words and a somewhat meaningful grammar but nothing more....it's such a tease.
You can be surprised what survives assimilation, if it was known what it is. Odd ball example but cannabis is a Scythian word, but "bi" meaning two has endured from indoeuropean to today. Much like genetics of peoples become "lost" in new group names but it's still there to be seen, but different traits show among populations of those groups and origins. Eastern Europe is quite the grab bag for it.
So many things point to Etruscans being early Greek settlers. We already know that the south of Italy was settled by Greeks so it's not hard to imagine that they made it to the north of Italy too.
School: let's spend a semester on WW2... but fail to mention anything in Japan pre U.S involvement or even the entire eastern front. Megatron: here's exactly what the Etruscans looked like as well as a short overview of their military, religion, economy, diplomatic relations, and their fall in about ten minutes.
Thank you so much for covering this, Metatron! The Etruscans are so severely overlooked and underrated as a civilization. I welcome more discussions about them. And I’d love to see you cover the origins of the word Italia.
@@sauromatae9728 Everyone used to do it in various capacities or under particular parameters. Same with animal ones. Technically it is one of the oldest stories going back to Cain and Abel. Side note; according to Zen Garcia the story of "Atam and Eua" is Thracian from thousands of years ago. I had an interesting discussion with a Norse pagan once about the bog man body that I'll summarize because we exchanged details to paint a more full picture and helped justify my theory which is... (I'm actually mostly Gaelic in descent and like to mend proper Druidic notions like this one) To rectify a difference in barbarity and civility in this sense and for other cultural details I'll eschew here, I argue Druidic human sacrifice wouldn't be akin to Moloch worship [cooking kids or people in a bull statue] and more the follows Norman was ran into the swamp, with a noose around his neck before his throat was cut. Hanging was only for particular kinds of criminal. Throat cutting was also specific for a human sacrifice, intended to replenish vitality to the land (also a Nordic tradition) So I surmise Druidic human sacrifices were primarily of criminals. There may be exceptions, but I've read sources that point human saccing is a Snake Cult practice and not a tree/mushroom cult or lunar one. Solar ones seem to include it but snake cult is known to be.. infiltration oriented, or other ones like said Moloch (associated with owls as much as sun bull). I mean it so to the point where the man may have been hanged ritually to pay for his crime, but not to death, think brief or trial by strangulation.. and then driven into the bog (also a criminal's fate I was told) and killed as an offering. It's not nice by modern standards but it's also more practical to combine a socio-religious need so no one innocent necessarily suffers. Spartans sacrificed prisoners of war to Ares, a similar contrast. Romans also much later threw Christians (then pagans?) .. (and before that, both?) to lions for entertainment purposes among other questionable things. So it's not like it's a new or unusual prospect. Though this is also cultural divergences, Goths, called barbaric, found gladiatoral games to be.. barbaric. Where the line is drawn of fairness continually evolves from those bygone eras. It even reminds me of another friend asking me the moral implications of eating octopus if they are as intelligent as they, and we, are. Mind you, I had to curb his enthusiasm for wanting to kill and eat one kind of every fair game animal.. and cryptid even. Because frankly either you understand and respect all life, from animals to plants, or people generally don't. If you are the kind of people to apologize to and thank plants for what they give, it ramps natural law up quite high to the human level of things. Unless you're a bit more stoic and respect dogs more than people... Lol. But I say it to that linked idea. I had a cat who could open doors and figured out how to sit on the toilet to use it, flushing wasn't a stretch of logic from there. My husky can vocalize 'love' and 'ravioli'. So animals can (some are dumb, like people) be quite smart. People have to draw the ethical lines themselves. Maybe it's just me and I am more Druidic. I'll have to look up how they did human sacrifice to judge their civility for myself. Meanwhile people today will still kill for shoes, pleasure, or a general lack of brain cells, but I hope you enjoy the brain food over simply writing most people off. And the emphasis that one part of Rome you had someone mulling over ways to mix animals, blood sport and theater in very un-PG ways while someone else was perfecting the greatest gift of Romans, plumbing. Seriously, of all the achievements, I can't think of better than the whole plumbing deal. I'm sure it's not that cut and dry either but besides volcanic long winters, the dark ages were dark because no one exalted plumbers and aquaducts and all that. Shit there's depictions of blood channels by people who built floating cities, but you want to talk about civilization achievements? Could they flush? You know killing all the plumbers and not making an effort to maintain that trade and implement it is a huge detriment. Probably get cannibals shortly after sewage systems fail every time too.
very true! I grew up in the area of Veii, we call it Vejo. you should see the landscape, it's magical. like Rivendell www.bing.com/images/search?q=veio+cascata&form=HDRSC2&first=1&scenario=ImageBasicHover
@@sauromatae9728 before christianity every western country was doing sacrifices, in fact sacrifices are an absolute part of human culture, its the semithic religions that created this antinatural current with monotheism
Fun fact: I once used the Etruscans as way to start chatting up to a lass that did archaeology. She didn't know anything about them 😒😒😒 She majored Classics... Quite a shame that they aren't quite well known to the general public. I just think that for a culture that contributed so much to one of the most well known empires, they're quite under appreciated.
Sadly, it's true that even at the University 'Classics' usually mean Egypt, Summeria, Greece, Rome and (sometimes) Persia. Not much is left for the rest... to be honest, the best History grads already start knowing much (as History interested us WAY before we started classes). I myself had to study very little while graduating (mostly parts of Medieval philosophy, monasticism and getting - rather quickly - used to paleography). Then, apart from practical on-the-ground research, I already knew beforehand everything that was on all the years of the curriculum. The lack of knowledge that I saw in my colleagues that later went to become History teachers was absolutely horrifying.
@@KnightofAges Yeah as dissapointing as it was, I quite liked knowing more about an ancient civilization than an undergrad archaeologist, and I do Geology 😂
“Classics” = Greece, Rome, Egypt, And Persia. Nothing about Etruscans, or Celts, or Germanic tribes, or anything else. Just the same 4 groups redundantly rehashed over and over again.
Actually I study classical archaeology and also roman provincial archaeology and they both include etruscans and other roman provincial inhabitants (barbarians, celts etc.) In fact, egyptian and middle-eastern archaeology aren't included, they are both seperated from each other, and you can study them separately. Here (Hungary) classics includes the aegean civilizations, archaic, classical and hellenistical Greece, and the early italian ages (etruscans, latins, and all who lived there from 14 century BC to the romans).
@@metatronyt On the other hand I think there is still balancing to do. I lost the track of your thought at times due to the jumpy editing. Might also save you some time and effort to focus on presenting the subject matter and honing it's quality. I enjoyed the subject, Etruscans are underrated as hell. Even in my first year at a nordic university the one cultural history lecture dedicated to the ancients completely omissioned the Etruscans. Like what the hell the Greeks weren't the only damn transmitter of cultural properties to the latins.
So there was never a unified Etruscan state? Interesting... To all who are salty about Creative Assembly didn't make the Etruscans playable in the Grand Campaign of Total War Rome II despite all the work they've done on them, raise your hand! Also, the Roman's superior method of baking bricks was a tradition of Etruscan origin.
Thank your for covering the Etruscan civilization which is of course well known but also generally something we never hear about. I also always appreciate the humor and miniatures. Keep up the great work!
For anyone who would like to see an exquisite Etruscan burial piece look up the Sarcophagus of the Spouses, just a sublime and timeless work of art and one of my favourite archaeological finds
Yes, Livy says the fifth King, Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, had moved to Rome from Etruria, which would indicate he was an Etruscan. He would marry an Etruscan noblewoman and his grandson, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, would become the seventh King. It was also against Superbus that the Romans rebelled against, establishing their Roman Republic in opposition to Etruscan monarchies.
As a Tuscan am so glad you spoke about Etruscan (or Rasenna, as they called themselves), even if briefly. By the way, another interesting divination system Etruscans probably used was the Catoptromanteia (divination trough a mirror) that was then integrated in the Roman culture whit dedicated priests, the specularii.
I went to Italy on a study abroad in 2019 & the Etruscan tombs were one of my favorite parts of the trip!! Sadly we didn’t get to spend as much time on that as I would’ve liked so hopefully I can go back someday & explore more!
Hello, Metatron. This is Jaron Green. You might remember me from a few months ago when I contacted you about the possibility of doing a sponsorship for my book Long Live The Emperor. At the time you were busy with several other sponsors with deadlines and said that we could speak on this matter in the future. I was wondering if now would be a could time to discuss it further since it has been a few months. I tried sending an email to check in a while ago but I'm afraid it got lost in the shuffle so I hope you see this comment. Anyway you know where you can reach me and I hope to talk to you soon. Until then have a wonderful day.
Napoleon was one of the worst things that happened to the world. He spread libtardation and went around undermining monarchies for his masters, the Learned Elders of the Synagogue of Satan who have persecuted their own people to hide their tracks. Masonic signs prove he was their servant. Protocol 4: "Materialism replace religion." He wore the Templar cross of eight corners matching the Star of Ishtar and referring to the Tower of Babel which was mankind's united project of rebellion against the Creator, trying to conquer heaven. The European Union uses the Tower of Babel in some of its symbols. It is a stepping stone towards the global empire or single global village. The UN has 33 sections in its logo. Masonry has 33 degrees. Disney has a Club 33. Templars became the masons. Mainstream history is like a Disney version of a Grimm tale. It's a farce how superficial and wrong it is.
@@makky6239 Well, you'll be pleased to know that I became an atheist since then, so now I don't believe you exist because I haven't seen you, and the cosmos revolve around my self-righteous atheist self. Babies are atheists, and many grow up but I regressed because it is in our most ignorant state that we can find solace. Psyence has already proven you are obsolete because a cat walking on a keyboard could have typed all of your shit. Atheism: 1. Intelligence: 0. LOL!
An Italian boomer in my english class in college in the US said hes 100% etruscan italian. He was such a cool dude. I never would have guessed that he was Italian. He seemed like a racemixed blue eyed white turk/southern slav or something. Hard to explain. But he did look very normal yet different. Btw you forgot to drink powerade in this video
in my opinion, Etruscans looked like modern day Iraqis or Iranians. Kurds maybe or Lebanese. they probably migrated from that area. they have definitely asian eyes and a nose which is different to the nose of europeans. i.ytimg.com/vi/IWpM6-S64wI/maxresdefault.jpg
@@gioq4702 You are wrong in everything you said, even more taking in consideration the people currently living there are mostly arabs that went there with the muslim expansion.
It's unlikely. Gladiatorial combat apparently originated in Campania, where wealthy men staged armed combat as entertainment during banquets. The Romans adopted this practice during the Samnite Wars (fourth century BC). The first recorded gladiatorial combat in Rome was in 264 BC, long after the heyday of the Etruscans; it was staged as part of the funerary rites for Junius Brutus Pera. However, the Etruscans did introduce the Romans to chariot racing. According to Livy, King Tarquin the Elder (whose reign is traditionally dated 616-578 BC) built the first version of the Circus Maximus for that purpose. The Etruscans were also fond of boxing, as shown in tomb paintings (which also depict chariot races). But Etruscan art offers no representations of pairs of armed men fighting with weapons (as in a munus). The mysterious Phersu is attested in four tomb paintings and a single black figure vase, according to Stefan Steingraber in his massive study of Etruscan wall painting (Abundance of Life, 2006, published in Italian as well as English). Phersu wears a mask and often dances or runs. Most famously, in the Tomb of the Augurs (ca. 520 BC), a masked figure identified as Phersu holds a hooded man on a leash while a dog attacks the man, who fights back with a club. But this spectacle bears no resemblance to Campanian or Roman munera.
@@buckyharris9465 Early literary sources seldom agree on the origins of gladiators and the gladiator games.[1] In the late 1st century BC, Nicolaus of Damascus believed they were Etruscan.[2] A generation later, Livy wrote that they were first held in 310 BC by the Campanians in celebration of their victory over the Samnites.[3] Long after the games had ceased, the 7th century AD writer Isidore of Seville derived Latin lanista (manager of gladiators) from the Etruscan word for "executioner", and the title of "Charon" (an official who accompanied the dead from the Roman gladiatorial arena) from Charun, psychopomp of the Etruscan underworld.[4] This was accepted and repeated in most early modern, standard histories of the games.[5] Reappraisal of pictorial evidence supports a Campanian origin, or at least a borrowing, for the games and gladiators.[6] Campania hosted the earliest known gladiator schools (ludi).[7] Tomb frescoes from the Campanian city of Paestum (4th century BC) show paired fighters, with helmets, spears and shields, in a propitiatory funeral blood-rite that anticipates early Roman gladiator games.[8] Compared to these images, supporting evidence from Etruscan tomb-paintings is tentative and late. The Paestum frescoes may represent the continuation of a much older tradition, acquired or inherited from Greek colonists of the 8th century BC.[9]
I was born and bred in the territory of Veii... it's a magical land. you should visit! it's also a unique position in the whole world. less than a hour away from the volcanic lake of Bracciano, the beach and the mountains! Tuscia is the Italian "Rivendell" :)
I majored in Spanish but could have learned much more from internet searching without wasting so much time on the long commute and so forth including the 100 dollar textbooks they used only ten pages from.
I can never quite put my finger on it, but the Etruscans always remind me of the Minoans. I know, completely different time period, completely different geographic location. Still, there is something in the artwork that strikes me as similar.
Really love these Videos! I just wish they where longer with and a bit more detailled, like describing the cities, etruscian origin, what where their realtions to greece in pre-Roman times, who where their Kings and so on (what kind of swords did they use). But i understand this would mean TONs of additional work and precious time. Anyways, i really appreciate the quality of your content! I'm already looking forward to the next video. Stay Safe!
Temporally, not temporarily (0:40 ~). The video is good, as always. I'd love a video about the history of 'the concept of the territory of Italy' in the past!
Great video mate! Is really interesting to see how the different cultures of the time influenced each other, and how we can spot said influences in our culture now. Cool miniatures by the way
i rmember going to an exhibition in Rome on the archeology of the city. it was the late 70s, and i can remember 'etruscan' being only a style of pottery, the Etruscan civilization was virtually unknown at the time, so efficient were there romans in effacing their civilization. thank you very much for this upload, Raphie!
Metatron, my name is David Benenato. My father is Sicilian. My mother is Algonquin. I believe you Europeans call them "Red Indians". A bit offensive to my mom's people. The Algonquin nation stretched from Delaware to Quebec. Anyway, I love your show. I learn so much about my father's side of the family. Thank you very much. My mother's people have lands all over eastern America and Canada. I believe you would call them Mohawk
My dad has had a interest with the Etruscans ever since reading George Dennis book 'Cities and cemeteries of Etruria' even has his protrait in his house. Very nice minis btw. Agema are currently producing Etruscan figures.
I am waiting for a review of the tv show Romulus. I can understand that you have many ideas and maybe waiting for the season to finish before you make a review. (Or has all been showed in Italy)
I love your video! Very informative! I have a Roman officers uniform. I have yet to see you make a video on the Leather Muscle cuirass and leather strap skirt the officers used in any of your videos. Will you please make a video on the Leather cuirass and skirt the officers used. Thank you.
I have read some articles from Albanian historians (which are not accepted from the main universities like oxford or cambridge) that find an interesting connection between some albanian and etrucan words which are neither latin or greek roots. hope you can try to make some research about the people of north greek at that time, Illyrians, even tho the literature and evidence lacks a lot. Great Work!
I feel like many Roman enthusiasts now speak more Latin on RU-vid since Netflix' " Barbarians" Anyway, thank you for the video! I am fascinated by lost civilizations like the Etruscans. I wonder much etruscan and Roman DNA (culturally&biologically) survived in modern Italians
hello metatron! first things first, love your content! i love to see how much effort you put into this and the plain joy you show us in your videos! thank you for keeping me eduacted in a field that i love! appreciate you! anyhow, how would you like to make a video about stone slings? i guess u can easily fill a video about this device, technics, development, psychologiacl an physical impact (the sound these things make alone must have been terrifying) and maybe crossreferences in different cultures like some people in meso and south america who used them aswell for heerding and fighting.
Salve Metatron! Hi Raff! I wonder if you already know the 2020 series romulus? If not i am sure you will like it and review it one day. If you do so, please tell us the original story, i translated it during school times 25 years ago and actually apart from the names in the series don t recognize anything at all, like a total different story. But maybe there are different original ancient stories about it and i translated the other one? Whatever, your review will be great i know this. But don't make it too short, i miss your longer videos, things don't need to be perfect, just don't edit out that much and give us more minutes of entertainment instead. Thank you!
Quite fascinating how such a well known civilisation remains partly a mystery concerning the language. Despite all the texts and words that were found, there is so much left to discover about it.
Kopis! Hey Metatron, since you like swords, I'll just mention quickly that if you have not already checked out the work of Fernando Quesada Sanz, he is the leading researcher on Falcata type swords, and points out that the Etruscans are the likely intermediaries for carrying the Kopis to Iberia in the 5th century BC. Thought it would pair nicely with all of the other discussion in your great video! If you want to know more about the Kopis/Makharia research let me know =)
Hi, Rafaello, could you make a video about late Empire? I recently saw their tunicae and spathae, so the late romans are facinanting. I really love the design of their tunicae.
Well it would've been nice to see the layout of a typical Etruscan tomb since that's where we seem to get so much of our knowledge of the Etruscan culture.
