Larissa Bonfante
Affiliation
From the American Philosophical Society:
...Her first published article was "Emperor, God and Man: Julian the Apostate and Ammianus Marcellinus," followed by Etruscan Dress (1975). Further work on ancient dress, originally inspired by the works of Margarete Bieber, included an NEH Summer Seminar on the Symbolism of Roman Costume (1988), and publications on the Roman triumph, and nudity as a costume in classical art. Brendel’s statement, "we take the Greeks as our model, forgetting that they did everything differently from everyone else," helped direct her focus on the non-Greeks of the classical world, for example in The Etruscan Language, written with her father, the Indo-Europeanist Giuliano Bonfante. Out of Etruria (1981) and the forthcoming Jerome Lectures deal with the spread of Classical culture into Europe. She is currently at work on an edited volume on the Barbarians of Western Europe, with contributions on the Thracians, Scythians, Celts, and Germans...