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Van Der Meer, L. B., The Bronze Liver of Piacenza, Analysis of a Polytheistic Structure. From the Introduction: "This book deals with the Iecur Placentinum, the bronze model of a sheep's liver, bearing 42 Etruscan inscriptions. It was found near Piacenza in 18877. Once it was used by an Etruscan haruspex [seer], probably about 100 BC. The model is a real hapax. No other liver model with inscriptions has been found in Italy. As elsewhere in the Mediterranean world [and particularly in Greece] ... the Etruscans used to consult the entrails, in particular the liver, of an animal in order to discover the intentions of the gods and to explore the near or sometimes distant future. ... the liver depicts a microcosmos reflecting the macrocosmos, the Etruscan division of heaven."

Virgin, The Aeneid, tr. by James Rhoades.

von Bothmer, Dietrich, The Amasis Painter and His World, Vase-Painting in Sixth-Century B.C. Athens. The world of the Amasis Painter is Greece, in particular, Athens during the years from roughly 560 to 515 BC. Greece in those years was not a geographical entity; it was delimited instead by a distinctive way of thinking and talking. There are 132 vases attributed to the Amasis Painter. Of this impressive number, about half, 65, are here united and fully catalogued. The catalogue entries are based on detailed notes taken in almost fifty years of study of Greek vase-painting.

von Vacano, Otto-Wilhelm, The Etruscans in the Ancient World, tr. by Sheila Ann Ogilvie. The Etruscans have always been a mystery people who have excited the curiosity and interest of historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, and linguists from the time of Hesiod to that of the present. Living in the great plain of Italy between Rome and Florence, and commemorated by the name of Tuscany, they were closely connected with the fortunes of ancient Rome. Their culture unfolded and flowered from the 8th to the 1st century BC, when they were finally over-powered and absorbed by the Roman Republic. Numerous black and white plates and line drawing illustrate von Vacano's authoritative work.