Totally the sort of thing I would have imprinted on, when I was younger. Cruel poet-priest-kings, dancing into battle, with Cushingesque faces.

I think you will still get a kick out of it. It has a terrific underworld.

(I can't believe Tanith Lee never wrote anything with an Etruscan theme, but I don't remember it and I can't find any hints that I just missed the story. Egypt, Assyria, Carthage, Persia, all present and accounted for; medieval Jewish mysticism, we got that right here; pre-Roman Italy, zilch. Considering how much she likes the ancient, the chthonic, and the evocative, I am actually surprised.)