The original documents and sources were written by Theopompos in the 4th century BCE. The source was written in origins by Theopompos a Greek historian and then in the 2nd CE the writer Athenaus took the source and added it to his own work. The document was about the Etruscans but, specifically about the Etruscan Women. The author compared the Etruscans to the barbarians of the west because just like the barbarians of the west the Etruscans also shaved their bodies smooth. One argument of the document was that the Romans were more civilized than the Etruscans. There was a story about an Etruscan woman who drove a carriage over her father. The author stated, “There followed an act of bestial inhumanity”. In other words, the Etruscan women were