Rise of the Etruscans
The Ancients
00:00
What Are the Etraskan Trade Ports?
I think what's happening is we're seeing elite people developing trading networks with other people of a sort of similar status across the Mediterranean. What we're seeing in Etruria, and they're turning up in these extremely extravagant burials,. Usually they get termed kind of princely, but that's almost like a quirk of the language because it's probably not really appropriate to be talking about princes necessarily at this point in ETruria. So I think that's very much in play before the development of these ports. They're so, so interesting.
Play episode from 34:09
Transcript
