The Religion

Cup with Eracle fighting with Triton The Etruscans had the fame to be a religious population, but we are inclined to believe that this was only commonly based on some affirmation of the ancient scholars. Livio for example wrote that they were "a population which between all others, dedicated particularly to religious practices, in that they distinguished in knowing how to cultivate". In reality it does not seem that for the Etruscans the religion had an important role that other populations had, such as the Romans or the Greeks. It was well known instead that the Eurasian religion confronted with the other quotes, had been a excellent meticulous cult, eventually the conformist and scruples of men in front of the will of the gods, therefore researched and interpreted. So it can be concluded in a feeling of annulment, of their human will power, in favour of the power of destiny and divine values which the Greeks and Romans never knew.

In the divine and erotic mythology a fundamental element of influence in the Greek mythology, as you can note from the that are provided by various documents (frescoes, figures on vases), many that you could not speak of original legends totally different from the Greek.

Curiously you can remember the Etruscans, from the examination of the signs received by the gods. They have deducted that their population had been assigned only ten centuries of existence, today we can agree that they had not gone far wrong.


The interpretation of the divine signs
The sub-division of the sky
The Etruscan Pantheon

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