The social life

The reconstruction of the life that developed in the beautiful houses of the wealthy did not present excessive difficulty, thanks to discovery of many daily life scenes in the frescoes of the tombs by the wealthy furnishings. But not as such can be said of the life in which they were subjected to the lower classes, by beginning with the slaves, which were very numerous in Etruria often prizes of the sea battles.

Of the life of the noble classes, in particular worth noting is the indipendent position that the woman occupied in the social generach, seeing that she could participate as guests and at the celebrations in absolute equality. In the Archaic age the men and women banqueted stretched out on the same bed. It presumes that this and other considerations made, there was a great scandal in the formal liberty of the Etruscan women. So different from the segregation of the Greek women, especially in the archaic age. But by the V-IV century B.C. the Etruscan women did not participate anymore as guests spread out like the men but seated, this custom remained diffused in all the Roman World period.

In general, the representation of banquets, in which those of the Leopards o del Recliner Tombs, of Tarquinia, demonstrates paintings full of naturalness and simplicity. Not forgetting also representing the celebrations usually orgiastic, with many dancing, accompanied by the presence of accompaniment of instruments such as double flute.

A notable series of figures refers to games and performances with halls of chariots, horsemen, wrestlers and boxers, otherwise a performance of mystic nature, musical or acrobatic. In some scenes of the performance of the fighters could be traced to anticipate the fights of the Roman Gladiators, Where the strongest was given the possibility of saving his own life, at the loss of the loser. An example of this is given by the fresco of the Augurs Tomb of Tarquinia, where a bearded masked character drawn with the name of Phersu (in Latin persona), with a fierce dog on a lead, which attacks a half naked man and with his head wrapped in a sack and armed with a club.