Episode 98 - Oscan the Right Questions
This week, on a special sponsored episode, Anna and Amber explore some of the lesser-known Italic cultural groups that were peripheral to Ancient Rome. We seek out Samnites and uncover Umbrians. We also take a brief tour of Etruscan wine country.
To learn more, check out:
Oscan Language (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
Iguvine tablets (Wikipedia)
The Samnites in the Po Valley (Classical Journal)
Samnites (Sabellians) (Italics) (The History Files)
Gender and Ritual in Ancient Italy: A Quantitative Approach to Grave Goods and Skeletal Data in Pre-Roman Samnium (American Journal of Archaeology)
Umbri (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
Cultural Change in the Religious Sphere of Ancient Umbria between the Sixth and the First century BCE (University of Michigan)
The First French Winemakers Learned Everything They Knew From Etruscans (Smithsonian)
And books!
Ancient Umbria: State, Culture, and Identity in Central Italy from the Iron Age to the Augustan Era
Ancient Samnium: Settlement, Culture, and Identity between History and Archaeology
Photo credit: Samnite soldiers from a tomb fresco from Nola, 4th century BCE. Museo archeologico nazionale di Napoli (inv. nr. 9363). Public Domain.