Qestion: Did the Etruscans and the Greeks had the biggest impact on roman life? Explain why
The Etruscan civilization was early civilization (900 BCE-100 BCE) that inhabited Italy from Tuscany to Rome. The very term Greek at first time has been used with the old Latin language began in the 3rd century BC as Daikos, the term has been changed with the new Latin word Greako which both terms has describe one purpose, the religious believe of Idolatry or Ellinismós.
While Roman religion was the worship (idolatry) of gods such a Jupiter, Juno, Minerva and Mars, Ellinismós mostly were focused on twelve Olympians.
The Etruscans, like most of the population in the Middle East, Egypt or the Mediterranean, had a pagan religion who, on the other hand, "copied" religious beliefs from each other, left a mark on their beliefs. It is not complete to know the migration of the Etruscans, the assumptions are that they are from the Anatolian region, it is not surprising that they passed on their beliefs to the Romans, ie the pagan belief that spread from Syria, Egypt, Anatolia, the Ionian Islands ... therefore, the influence of the Romans on the Etruscans is inevitable, but the confusion remains when Greek influence is mentioned for any reader who is not more deeply acquainted with the movement of antiquity. The blame for that confusion lies with the English translation itself, which Hellen automatically translated as Greek, any reader in his mind associating with the modern Greek state, which is spiritually Christian (Orthodox). In my presentation below there is an explanation of the uniqueness of the terms, and who could have been Helllen.
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Hellenism can be described as a form of Paganism, also called Ethnism (Latin: Paganismo, in modern Greek: Ethnikos), which means it is an ethnos. It is not to be used synonymously with eclectic New Age religions. It is not vague, undefined “earth-based” spirituality. It also is not “religion without rules.” And it especially is not a “religion of one’s blood” that is to be confused with the chauvinistic and brainless concept of “ethnicism.” Ethnic/Pagan religions such as Hellenism are said to be concerned with an ethnos, yes, but this is not to be confused with “race” or “blood,” as an ethnos has nothing to do with one’s blood or anything remotely similar to contemporary social constructs invented by European imperialists such as “race.” “Race” is merely a social construct based on physical attributes – and Hellenes are not of a single type: there are Hellenes who came from Egyptian backgrounds, Hellenes who came of Syrian backgrounds, Hellenes who came from Latin backgrounds, and so on.
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