Summer with an Etruscan, amid dark omens

Illustration by Javier Olivares.

After a long relationship of years with the Etruscans, that remarkable people of antiquity from which the Romans inherited so much (the fasces, without going any further, the emblem of the authority of the magistrates that the lictors carried), I always end up inevitably returning to the clichés coined about them. The mystery, the obsession with death and the world beyond the grave, the atmosphere of melancholy and lost greatness that surrounds them, the harshness bordering on cruelty, the divinatory mania .....

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