Video game about the Etruscans is highly successful, and developers reinvest in culture by launching Etruscan festivals

The story is one to take as an example: the company Entertainment Game Apps (E.G.A.), creator of the video game about the Etruscans Mi Rasna, which we told you about a few weeks ago, has achieved extraordinary success with its product, which has led it to keep its promise to reinvest part of the proceeds in culture. Specifically, 3 percent of what was obtained from the video game was reinvested in cultural-tourist development activities, so E.G.A. is now funding a major event dedicated to the Etruscans, the festival of the Etruscans entitled Tyrrhenikà: Etruscan Heritage Route, which will be organized from May 18 to June 2, 2019 in various locations in Tuscany, Umbria, and Lazio, together with the Suodales Cultural Association. The event takes its name from the literary work Tyrrhenikà, written by Emperor Claudius in Greek: a treatise on the history and civilization of the Etruscans, composed in 20 books, and re-enacted in the festival that E.G.A. is launching in the spring.

The event will be organized in collaboration with the Anticae Viae project and aims to give continuity to the project of promoting the Etruscan territory and its culture through the use of always innovative and engaging tools. E.G.A., in particular, wants to create an itinerary in ancient Etruria, through some of the main representative cities of the Etruscan people (all, moreover, already included in the video game Mi Rasna): the events, therefore, will be held in Populonia, Vetulonia, Roselle, Chiusi, Arezzo, Cortona, Orvieto, Perugia, Veio and Cerveteri. The grand finale, however, will be in Rome at the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia. The program of events is already known, which we report below.

Saturday, April 27: Volterra
Morning official presentation of the Tyrrhenikà project. Historical parade through the center to the Guarnacci Museum, with theatricalized visit. In the afternoon, dramatization of the religious rite at the Acropolis.

Saturday, May 18: Vetulonia, Roselle and Populonia.
At 10 a.m., at the National Archaeological Area of Vetulonia, you will be able to meet Aule Feluske, an Etruscan warrior from the 7th century. He will be the one (along with the help of other armed men) to tell us about the evolution of the Tyrrhenian army, all accompanied, at 11 a.m., by an educational workshop on combat in the ancient world. At 12 noon, at the Roselle Archaeological Area, Velthur Tulumne and his workers will tell us in a guided tour how the walls of Roselle were built. In the afternoon, at 3 p.m., at the Roselle National Archaeological Area there will be an educational workshop (reservations required) called “Building in ancient Etruria: civil construction techniques.” At 4 p.m., inside the lucumonia of Pupluna, in the Archaeological Park of Populonia and Baratti, it will be the King who will offer an educational banquet inside his dwelling - the King’s House - with didactics on the Villanovan era, weaving and wine tasting.

Sunday, May 19: Chiusi, Arezzo and Cortona.
In the morning, at the Museum of the Etruscan Academy and the City of Cortona, the Tabula Cortonensis will be reconstructed by Etruscan scribes who will explain Etruscan writing and its evolution. In the afternoon, the reconstruction will focus on writing and the sacred with a depiction of the evolution of Etruscan writing and its use in religion. This will be followed by a performance of an oracular ceremony inside the G. Cilnio Maecenas National Archaeological Museum in Arezzo. Also in the afternoon, at the National Archaeological Museum in Chiusi, the “Galatomachia” (combat with the Gauls) will be performed following the iconography of the sarcophagus of Laris Sentinate Larcna with explanation about the wars against the Gauls and reconstruction of the figure of King Porsenna with an interview with the historical figure.

Saturday, May 25: Veio
We will descend to southern Etruria and the weekend will open with an event inside the Sanctuary of Minerva of Portonaccio in Veio, which for the occasion will come back to life with priests and merchants repopulating the sacred place between rituals and trade. In addition, the protagonists will tell about Etruscan life through religion by organizing “Etruschiadi” for children.

Sunday, May 26: Cerveteri
Sunday in the lucumonia of Caere: inside the Cerite National Archaeological Museum, a potter’s workshop will come back to life and theatricalized guided tours will be organized among archaeological finds and with tasting of local wines.

Saturday, June 1: Orvieto and Perugia
The weekend will open with the two Umbrian lucumonies: in the morning, a ritual will be celebrated at the Temple of the Belvedere, followed by theatricalized guided tours at the National Archaeological Museum in Orvieto. During the afternoon it will head toward the turn of the National Archaeological Museum of Umbria in Perugia, where there will be a reconstruction of the procession depicted on the Sarcophagus Sperandio and didactics on Etruscan religion.

Sunday, June 2: Rome
Grand closing at the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, with the Festival of Etruscan Heritage where there will be staged displays inside the museum, educational activities for children, an Etruscan symposium accompanied by music, the rite of aruspicina, the making of painted ceramics and the tasting of ancient wines and foods.

Through the Thyrrenikà project , E.G.A. intends to trace a further path of collaboration with Etruscan museums and archaeological parks and thus give the general public the opportunity to observe in a direct and experiential way what was the life of the Etruscan people in its various facets. In addition, thanks to the use of historical reenactment, a popular activity that aims to reconstruct facts and situations of the past, the public will be able to touch and see with their own eyes historical events and personalities who were protagonists of the Etruscan season of our history. For the young and not so young, educational tables and workshops will be organized that will go in-depth into certain themes, thus giving the opportunity to learn about them in the best possible way.

Video game about the Etruscans is highly successful, and developers reinvest in culture by launching Etruscan festivals

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