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Title: Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923
Subjects: Cities and towns, Ancient Cities and towns -- Italy Architecture, Roman Italy -- Antiquities Dalmatia (Croatia) -- Antiquities
Publisher: New York, Sturgis & Walton Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rthage in509, which includes tliis section in Latium. IV Rome and Etruria On entering the Etruscan borders a veil ofmystery as alluring and as baffling as the Sphinxseems to descend and make every step uncertain.In presence of the immense variety of materialand of conjecture, it would be easy to pass beyondwhat is necessary to illustrate the central pur-pose of this book, which is to elucidate Rome andher relations to ancient Italy. The temptationto discuss origins is almost irresistible; wefeel that the antiquities of Etruria have amore direct bearing upon the outward form ofearly Roman civilization than any other groupin Italy. After granting Latin supremacy ininternals, we concede Etruscan supremacy in ex-ternals. We cannot split hairs in a discussionas to whether the tombs of the eighth and seventhcenturies B.C. in Southern and Central Etruria,whose contents, while richer and more varied,are similar in character to those of Latium, rep-resent the Etruscans themselves, or an Italic
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