Quote Originally Posted by Cyclops View Post
Yeah one of those situatons. Obviously they have a cultural link to the east and adopt a lot of Greek ideas so an Aegean origin (at least for some of the ruling class) is quite probable, but there's heaps of continuity in the material culutre as well, so i'm guessing a great proportion of Etruscans were locals. Maybe a similar situation to "Celts" in the British Isles? Or English/Lallans speakers in Scotland?
(I'm a new member and I'm sorry if my english isn't very fluent) Hi, Cyclops.

I don't know anything about ancient people in England or in Scotland you refer to, but I agree with you on that: Etruscans, although they assimilated many aspects of Ellenism in 4rd and 3rd centuries b.C., maintained some of their cultural peculiarities but expressed them with greek art. In every case I think that their assimilation of Ellenistic and, then, Roman culture was slow and contiuous. Finally, their cultural identity was "standardized" to the Roman/Latin culture. That also happened to Iberians and to Veneti, for example.