COURSE info

  • PRICE: 95€ (approx. $100)

  • LANGUAGE: The course is held in English language

  • SUBTITLES: All videos include English subtitles (closed captions)

  • LEVEL: The course is designed at an introductory level

  • PREREQUISITES: The course does not require any precedent knowledge or requisites

  • SCHEDULE: You are completely independent. Enroll when you want and follow the course according to your agenda

  • STRUCTURE: The course is stuctured in 10 Lessons, subdivided in a variable number of Sections plus other studying material (articles, bibliography, timeline, images etc.). Each Section includes one video. In order to proceed within the course you must complete all Sections of each Lesson including a small assessment quiz

  • LENGTH: To complete the entire course are required approx. 15 hours (videos + readings)

Watch Intro Video

Watch a short introduction to the course

The course includes:

  • Approx. 10 hours of HD video lessons

  • Downloadable readings & other study material

  • Unlimited access to the course for 1 year (365 days)

  • Full access from any device

  • Step-by-step quizzes to assess your comprehension and progress

  • Community forum to discuss topics & issues with the other students

  • CAMNES Certificate of Attendance upon successful completion

Course curriculum

    1. Understanding the Etruscans: Presentation of the course

    1. Etruscan Civilization Timeline

    2. Etruria General Map

    3. Course Readings bibliography

    1. L1S1 - Geography of Etruria

    2. L1S2 - The Chronological Framework

    3. L1S3 - Sources of Information

    4. L1S4 - The Beginning of Etruscan Studies

    5. Etruscology: its Origins and Develop (C. Smith)

    6. The Ever Elusive Etruscan Egg (C. Pieraccini) - An Example on how sources can solve archaeological enigmas

    7. Lesson 1 - Assessment Quiz

    1. L2S1 - The Debate around the Origins: The Ancient Authors

    2. L2S2 - The Contemporary Debate

    3. L2S3 - Villanovans: Early Discoveries and Observations

    4. L2S4 - Villanovan Tombs

    5. L2S5 - Villanovan Huts

    6. On Etruscan Origins, Again (G. Camporeale)

    7. Beginnings. Protovillanovan and Villanovan Etruria (S. Stoddart)

    8. Lesson 2 - Assessment Quiz

    1. L3S1 - General Features

    2. L3S2 - Monumental Funerary Architecture

    3. L3S3 - Inside the tombs: The Luzurious Grave Goods

    4. L3S4 - Domestic and Religious Architecture

    5. L3S5 - The Banquet

    6. Death and Burial (A. Naso)

    7. Families, Feasting, and Funerals: Funerary Ritual at Ancient Caere (L. Pieraccini)

    8. Lesson 3 - Assessment Quiz

    1. L4S1 - Socio-economic Changes

    2. L4S2 - The City

    3. L4S3 - The Tombs

    4. L4S4 - Resources of Etruria: The Minerals

    5. L4S5 - Resources of Etruria: Viticulture

    6. L4S6 - Ancient Ceramic Production and Bucchero Ware

    7. The Apogee of Etruscan Thalassocracy and the Confrontation with Greece (580-450 BCE) (A. Maggiani)

    8. The Process of Urbanization of Etruscan Settlements from the Late Villanovan to the Late Archaic Period (End of the Eighth to the Beginning of the Fifth Century B.C.): Presentation of a Project and Preliminary Results (S. Steingräber)

    9. Lesson 4 - Assessment Quiz

About this course

  • €95,00
  • 10 lessons subdivided in 84 sections
  • About 10 hours of full HD video content

Main learning outcomes

  • Hystory & Culture

    Learn about one the most important European civilizations, their main cultural traits, the challanges that scholars are still facing and how they influenced Roman culture as well as contemporary Western society

  • Archaeology

    Discover the main Etruscan sites, the funerary contexts and the material culture of one of the most fascinating ancient civilizations of the world

  • Anthropology

    Understand the social mechanisms & dynamics of classical cultures, how they interacted and how they influenced contemporary society

Meet your instructor

Senior Lecturer Silvia Nencetti

She graduated at the University of Florence in 2008 (major in Etruscan Studies), and in 2010 she took a postgraduate degree in Classical Archaeology at the Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici, University of Rome “La Sapienza” (PhD equivalent in Italy). She also took the Certification in Italian Language Teaching Competence (DITALS I, University of Siena), and she met the requirements to teach Art History in Italian high schools. She has been a licensed hiking guide since November 2020. She worked as a guide and museum educator at the Museo Archeologico “Francesco Nicosia” (Artimino, PO), and Museo Archeologico del Chianti Senese (Siena). She has been collaborating with CAMNES/LdM since 2005. She took part in many CAMNES projects and events, such as the first edition of the CAMNES Archaeological Lectures (“Rasenna: Capire gli Etruschi”), the archaeological map of the Florentine area, the CAMNESforKIDS project (archaeological lectures and activities to be presented in Italian schools), the Workshop “Archeologia a Firenze: Città e Territorio”, the exhibition “Reflections of a Society: Telephus Mirror and other Grave Goods from the Etruscan necropolis of Macchia della Riserva (Tuscania, VT)”. She was vice director in CAMNES Excavation Project of Accesa in June 2010 and 2011, and of the Excavation Project of Tuscania from 2010 to 2018. In Spring 2014 she was visiting professor (Italian Language and Culture) at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY. She currently teaches several Ancient Studies classes in Florence at LdM/CAMNES including “Florentia: Ancient Roots of Florence”; “Archaeology Workshop”; “Wine Roots: From Enotria to Chianti”; “Museums and the Public”; “Archaeology Field School”; “Greeks, Etruscans, Romans”.

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