Aeneas and Turnus on Late Etruscan Funerary Urns

Abstract

The Etruscans often depended on Greek stylistic and iconographical models. When they borrowed from the Greeks, they did so with discrimination; and if they altered their models, they did so consciously. A certain lack of inventiveness on the part of the Etruscans does not necessarily imply a lack of intelligence or judgment. As the Etruscans turned eagerly towards Greek literature and art, they maintained their own culture with its traditions and history. Their own heritage was not so completely overwhelmed by Greek things as to leave barely any traces in Etruscan art. Here we will examine two related scenes on late Etruscan