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Topic: Business and Suggestions 
Topic Editor: Nesnut Hatshepsut
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Message: Revitalizing Etruria
Author: - Tuscus Sempronius, Patron 
Date: Aug 31, 1999 09:38
      Hello, everyone. I'm posting this at homesites too, in the hope of 
      reaching more of us, and drawing us back to Etruria, even if it's just to 
      see what's going on. I'm hoping the following list will ignite some of the 
      creativity smouldering in us, or get us to generate our own ideas, and 
      play with the most appealing ones. 

      Several ideas/suggestions for Etruria: 

      1. An Etruscan city for Virtual Rome would be a good group project, as 
      Nesnut has pointed out. Suggestions for a particular city? 

      2. An Etruria FAQ, linked from the Etruria site itself, with a graphic 
      that everyone at Etruria could copy to their homepage. That way, newcomers 
      and visitors could find out more about the Etruscans more easily. Reading 
      through our increasingly large volume of postings can give a fragmented 
      picture, besides being time consuming. The FAQ could also be linked to 
      number 3 below. 

      3. A more general Etruscan Archive/Museum/Library. Here we could 
      contribute short paragraphs on our areas of interest, pictures/images, 
      art, poetry, speculation, etc. This may be a matter of editing/expanding a 
      previous posting, devising a graphic, sending a scanned image, asking a 
      question, commenting on materials already assembled, contributing an 
      interesting link from the Web, offering a book review, etc. Again, we 
      could develop a graphic which we could each link to from our webpages. 
      Then we could follow the progress of the project more readily, as well as 
      check one central location if we had a question, or wanted to refer 
      someone else to resources. Also, just surfing through things Etruscan is a 
      pleasure itself. 

      4. In the interest of pure silliness: an Etruscan limerick contest. "There 
      once was a lauchum from Chiusi . . ." 

      5. "Etruscans in the news": someone could monitor journal and newspaper 
      articles, TV programs, etc., alerting us to new material, which we could 
      add to our archives. 

      6. Etruscan Full Moon Feasts: maybe the Etruscans worshipped a moon 
      god/dess as some suggest; maybe not. But it could be fun for as many of us 
      as possible to assemble at Etruria once a month for chat, gossip, news, 
      speeches, poetry, song, FUN. We could host it at anyone's page who has 
      chat access. 

      7. Clarification of the electoral process for new leaders. Yearly or twice 
      yearly elections? Votes of confidence?! Ritualization of the whole 
      process? Who would like to offer sacrifice and take the auguries?! 

      I hope to begin following through on some of these within the next week. 

      Comments, suggestions, reactions? 

      Tuscus








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