Etruscan StudiesPub Date : 2019-11-05DOI: 10.1515/etst-2019-2001
G. Meyers
{"title":"Letter from the Editor","authors":"G. Meyers","doi":"10.1515/etst-2019-2001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/etst-2019-2001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":373793,"journal":{"name":"Etruscan Studies","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129527830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Etruscan StudiesPub Date : 2019-11-05DOI: 10.1515/etst-2019-2002
N. de Grummond
{"title":"In Memoriam: Larissa Bonfante (1931–2019)","authors":"N. de Grummond","doi":"10.1515/etst-2019-2002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/etst-2019-2002","url":null,"abstract":"Mirrors, inscriptions, costume, language, history, society, sexuality, art—these were the areas of Etruscan studies in which Larissa Bonfante was an internationally admired expert. Her contributions have been influential over a period of more than 40 years and will always be remembered for what she initiated or added to the dialogue. She also took an interest in many other aspects of cultural studies, some quite surprising. Larissa’s lively curiosity and intellect led her to translate the medieval plays of Hroswitha of Gandersheim (with her daughter Alexandra Bonfante Warren), to study and publish the art of the north Italian ancient culture known as the Situla Peoples, to collaborate on articles on Michelangelo and Poussin (with the present writer), and to organize a world-class conference featuring Scythians, Thracians, Celts and other “barbarians” of ancient Europe. Over many decades, Larissa Bonfante was the recognized leader who brought together the Etruscan scholarly community in the USA, beginning in 1973 with her work on the American volumes of the Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum, for which she guided to completion 4 fascicles, including her own superb volume on the collection of mirrors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was the founder of the American section of the prestigious Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi e Italici, reaching across the divide of the Atlantic to forge stronger bonds between American and European colleagues. Conscripted by Jane Whitehead to collaborate in the editing of the journal Etruscan Studies and the annual newspaper Etruscan News (which became the official organ of the American Section of the Istituto) Larissa played a most important role in promoting the publication of scholarly articles and reviews, and in developing a kaleidoscope of the latest news of excavations, exhibitions, books, conferences, awards, achievements, and poetry about the Etruscans, along with amusing jokes and photos of Archeocats and moving tributes to beloved colleagues who had passed from our midst. Larissa loved to bring attention to worthwhile but neglected corners of classical studies. Among her proudest achievements were her co-edited volumes of Classical Antiquities at New York University (Rome, 2006; with Blair Fowlkes) and The Collection of Antiquities of the American Academy in Rome (Ann Arbor, 2016, with Helen Nagy). Skill, patience, persistence, enthusiasm—these were the perso-","PeriodicalId":373793,"journal":{"name":"Etruscan Studies","volume":"198 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116481594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Etruscan StudiesPub Date : 2019-10-01DOI: 10.1515/etst-2018-0030
S. Michelucci
{"title":"D. H. Lawrence’s Etruscan Seduction","authors":"S. Michelucci","doi":"10.1515/etst-2018-0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/etst-2018-0030","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Sketches of Etruscan Places is especially important among D. H. Lawrence’s later works not only because it is the work that completes the image of a restless, indefatigable traveler looking for a new gospel in old cultures and in faraway countries, but also because it offers stimulating and surprisingly modern reflections on the relationship between dominant and subordinate cultures.For centuries historians, archaeologists, linguists and scholars had tried to penetrate the mystery of the Etruscans in order to explain their origin, interpret their symbols and read their language. Lawrence attempted to give his own interpretation of that ancient mysterious world as he viewed the Etruscans as the symbol of a lost vitality. His interpretation of this lost civilization insists on the “manipulation of cultural heritage,” which anticipates ideas expressed by Ronald Barthes in Mythologies (1957). As a result, Lawrence undermines traditional views of Etruscan civilization as vassal to Greek and Roman civilization and defends its individuality. Finally, Lawrence anticipates post-colonial ideas by deconstructing the centrality of the Western historical and cultural system of values and reconstructing, although partially, the non-canonical multiplicity of ethnic separateness.","PeriodicalId":373793,"journal":{"name":"Etruscan Studies","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124102349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Etruscan StudiesPub Date : 2019-10-01DOI: 10.1515/etst-2019-0003
Petra Amann
{"title":"Women and Votive Inscriptions in Etruscan Epigraphy","authors":"Petra Amann","doi":"10.1515/etst-2019-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/etst-2019-0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper aims at giving an overview of the quantitative and qualitative dimension of the female element in the field of Etruscan votive inscriptions. It offers a systematic discussion of dedications set by Etruscan women and attested by inscriptions from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period. The study does not focus primarily on religious aspects, but by taking into account the underlying social context it tries to cast some additional light on the role of women in Etruscan society.","PeriodicalId":373793,"journal":{"name":"Etruscan Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130336013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Etruscan StudiesPub Date : 2019-09-17DOI: 10.1515/etst-2019-0006
L. B. van der Meer
{"title":"The Archaeology of Language at Poggio Civitate (Murlo)","authors":"L. B. van der Meer","doi":"10.1515/etst-2019-0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/etst-2019-0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":373793,"journal":{"name":"Etruscan Studies","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133769288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Etruscan StudiesPub Date : 2019-09-17DOI: 10.1515/etst-2019-0002
Helen Nagy
{"title":"L’écriture et l’espace de la mort. Épigraphie et nécropoles á l’époque préromaine","authors":"Helen Nagy","doi":"10.1515/etst-2019-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/etst-2019-0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":373793,"journal":{"name":"Etruscan Studies","volume":"33 20","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132193310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Etruscan StudiesPub Date : 2019-09-17DOI: 10.1515/etst-2019-0008
D. Soren
{"title":"The Invisible Image: The Tomb of the Diver: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of Its Discovery. Catalogo della Mostra (Paestum, 3 Giugno-7 Ottobre 2018)","authors":"D. Soren","doi":"10.1515/etst-2019-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/etst-2019-0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":373793,"journal":{"name":"Etruscan Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133876586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}