Talk:Populonia

Volterran connection
Based on a statement by Servius long after the prehistoric foundation, this view was shown to be mythical by Luisa Banti, 1973. The tombs at Volterra are different, Populonia was contemporaneous and more populous. Similarly there is no sign of the Corsicans supposed to have founded the city. Article needs notes. Back to sleep now. Zzz.Dave (talk) 11:29, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

No Populonium
There's no Populonium, unless perchance a new element was discovered.Dave (talk) 02:06, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I was wrong. The Romans used three different forms (unabridged Latin dictionary). I will try to make up for this.Dave (talk) 11:29, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Desiderata
I should think you'd want to say something about the lower town and the metals industry. Then you might want to mention the park and to expand on the necropoleis, of which there are several. A bit more mention of the Roman town and its fate in the 1st century BC would be appropriate. A proper notes section with references in cite book and cite web format would be helpful.Dave (talk) 14:22, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
 * All right. As no one is inclined to take it up I will start doing some work on it. Feel free to jump in.Dave (talk) 11:31, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Necropolis
Minor FYI. Necropolis cannot be used as a plural in either English or Italian. The most scholarly use the Greek plural necropoleis. The English might say necropolises. In Italian it's invariant, necropoli. Since this is manifestly a Greek word, not made cryptic by anglicisation, it presents a puzzle to the English speaker usually solved with a nose-in-the-air necropoleis, in the air because you are educated enough to know the Greek plural, and are not just a bull-headed, know-nothing country boy from backwoods wherever. You can say necropoleis just like them city slickers, and with pride because you secretly know that although you may seem to be a fool you can put on the dog just like anyone else. Such are the ins and outs of English. But if you use necropolis as a plural you look like a just plain pimply-faced ignoramus, of the sort who pretends to be a PhD on WP, to be ignored as not even worth talking to by responsible adults, or as one of them foreigners who can't even talk the king's English. So, I suggest you quit insisting on putting necropolis in as a plural.Dave (talk) 09:49, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Britannica
I never liked putting in Britannica 1911 word-for-word and especially not without identification. It puts blah in instead of nothing so's you can get donation money, but it isn't the responsible thing to do. In this case all the archaeological and scholarly discoveries concerning Populonia have taken existence since 1911. The 1911 article has been useless for some time now. Seeing that I am building up up the article along modern lines I am just going to drop the offhand views of our ancestors. I put a link to Wikisource if anyone should take the time to put the 1911 article in there.Dave (talk) 09:49, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

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