Etruria
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
the Etruscans
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Protrepticus
Region where the Corybantic fratricides settled and taught the Cabiric rite; also site of necromancy.
At that time there dwelt about Eleusis the earth-born men;
and there they settled, being exiles, setting before the Etruscans, to be reverenced, that highly prized teaching of piety — a privy member and a chest.
As for the aged tree-stump honoured amid the desert sands, and the oracle there withered together with its very oak, leave them to legends that have grown old.
De Spectaculis
Region in Italy where the Lydian immigrants under Tyrrhenus settled and instituted spectacle-rites.
In Etruria, therefore, among the other rites of their superstitions, they instituted spectacles also under the name of religion.