Conation of Spurius

Spurius,

 

Concerning the last part of your entry, do you personally buy into the heavy 'orientization' of Etruscan religion from the 8th-6th Centuries BC because of the emerging Greek presence in southern Italy and a tenuous Greek trading presence near Erturia?

 

-Or- Do you think the religous similarities may have happened at a much earlier Bronze Age period that is unrecorded and unknown to us?

Spurius,

 

Concerning the last part of your entry, do you personally buy into the heavy 'orientization' of Etruscan religion from the 8th-6th Centuries BC because of the emerging Greek presence in southern Italy and a tenuous Greek trading presence near Erturia?

 

-Or- Do you think the religous similarities may have happened at a much earlier Bronze Age period that is unrecorded and unknown to us?

 

I would say earlier given some of the possible origins of the Etruscans, but if I had to back this with an academic brief... there is much more evidence for the later Greek colonies/cities influence.

 

I will admit that philology is my weak point, but I think that the major gods were already in place from an old common cultural contact. The obviously later additions like Artumes and Apulu probably did come from the 8th-6th century contacts though....

Very interesting. I look forward to your completed article.