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Shadi Bartsch: uncertainty

21 Apr 2021 Conversations with Tyler Shadi Bartsch on the Classics and China

“Underrated. We don’t know enough about it. It seems to be fascinating. The Romans probably got their skills of augury — telling the future by looking into animals or observing the flight of birds — from the Etruscans, and a lot more, but there’s so little left of the Etruscans.”

— Shadi Bartsch

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Shadi Bartsch
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Claim type
uncertainty
Recorded
21 Apr 2021
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

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…Etruscan civilization — overrated or underrated? Underrated. We don’t know enough about it. It seems to be fascinating. The Romans probably got their skills of augury — telling the future by looking into animals or observing the flight of birds — from the Etruscans, and a lot more, but there’s so little left of the Etruscans. Henry Purcell, the English composer — overrated or underrated?…

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