“The memory of this people comes to us like the echo of the tolling of the bells of a city sunken in the sea”.
these the words of the famous Latinist Theodor Mommsen regarding the Umbrian people.

The history of these peoples, the most northerly among the Italics, speaks of a glorious but largely unknown past, which had seen the Umbrians extend their culture from central-eastern Italy to the Po Valley.

Sons of the Sabellic culture, but at the same time linked to an unknown non-Indo-European population of Central Italy, as evidenced by their name, the Umbrians were deeply linked to the Etruscan world, from which they assimilated various traits, above all art and culture.

Just like many peoples of ancient Italy, in the last twenty years the Umbrians have been the object of interest and rediscovery, even if not always in a clear and conscientious way, and in this brief excursus on the origins and history of this people I will try to illustrate who the Umbrians were, but also who they certainly were NOT ...

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15 - WHO WERE THE UMBRIANS?
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03:31 - The Origins
08:49 - Society and Religion
11:41 - The relationship with Rome
19:47 - Who the Umbrians were NOT
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