Open Lecture

At the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome
Tuesday 4th of April starts at 18.00  

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Marjatta Nielsen, Ph.D.
“Etruscan women and their social networks”

Instead of giving an overall presentation of the state of studies on Etruscan women, the lecture will present some alternative approaches to aspects, which are totally absent in written sources. On one hand the abundant archaeological material and rich epigraphical evidence from the last four centuries BC invite to a large-scale statistical approach. On the other hand, hundreds of tomb contexts invite to look at women’s roles and status within changing family- and marriage patterns, and reveal women’s social networks, which were not necessarily confined to close family relationships.

 

Marjatta Nielsen, originally from the University of Helsinki, Finland, is an Etruscologist and Classical archaeologist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research covers a wide range of topics within the field of Etruscology, and she has been part of research groups in Rome, Helsinki and Lund, as well as participating in various excavations in Italy. Nielsen’s main research interests focus on Etruscan funerary sculpture, social issues such as family relations including women’s and children’s history, research history and the reception of Antiquity. Nielsen is a foreign member of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici.