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The Etruscans, a revenant and unusual people, had all but disappeared by the start of the Christian era. Sam Solecki chronicles their unexpected return to the intellectual and cultural history of the west, beginning with eighteenth-century scholars, collectors, and archaeologists, to provide a fascinating meditation on cultural transmission between ancient and modern civilizations.

Etruscans. --- Europe --- Civilization --- Etruscan influences. --- Mediterranean. --- affinity cultural and national. --- ancient civilizations. --- assimilation. --- classical. --- conquest. --- dance. --- decline. --- disappearance. --- dissemination. --- empires. --- federalism. --- genocide. --- grand tour. --- historiography. --- ideological. --- indigenous. --- influence. --- inventing the past. --- linguistic genocide. --- multicultural. --- multivocal. --- mythologies of unlucky conquered nations. --- peoples unlucky in history. --- pleasure. --- religion. --- superstition. --- syncretic. --- taste and antiquity. --- the disappeared. --- tomb paintings. --- tombs. --- uses of the past. --- vanished civilizations.