[OR_Archaeology] Fwd: [aia-salem-news] Goddesses, Aristocrats and Politics of Sex in Early Etruscan Italy with Dr. Anthony Tuck on Oct. 15

[Susan White]

Please join us on Thursday, October 15, 2009 for

"Goddesses, Aristocrats and Politics of Sex in Early Etruscan Italy"

Dr. Anthony Tuck
Department of Classics and Center for Etruscan Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Director of Excavations at Poggio Civitate (Murlo), Italy

No-Host Dinner
Jason Lee Room, Goudy Commons, 6 p.m.

Lecture
Paulus Lecture Hall (Room 201)
Truman Wesley Collins Legal Center
Salem, Oregon, 7:30 p.m.


The Archaeological Institute of America and the Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology at Willamette University welcome guest speaker Anthony Tuck for his lecture "Goddesses, Aristocrats and Politics of Sex in Early Etruscan Italy" on October 15.  The lecture begins at 7:30 pm and will be held in the Paulus Lecture Hall at the Willamette University College of Law located at 245 Winter Street SE in Salem.

Dr. Tuck will discuss the emergence of the goddess Potnia Theron as an influential icon in late 8th and early 7th century BCE Etruscan Italy.  During this period the Etruscan civilization underwent a significant political shift through a widespread, communal desire to discover what 
it meant to live in the region's growing urbanized centers. Thus a search for new iconography materialized within the aristocratic class, which consequently brought new divine images, like the Potnia Theron, into the public realm of Etruscan life. Dr. Tuck will attempt to unravel this particular aspect of social development in ancient Italy as well as to give insight to the dynamic structural changes in Etruscan politics during this time period.

Anthony Tuck is an Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. With interests in Etruscan archaeology and Greek and Roman archaeology, Dr. Tuck earned a Ph. D. from Brown University and received both Fulbright and Lilly grants for his 
research. A well-published scholar, Dr. Tuck has written numerous publications about topics pertinent to the ancient Italian necropolis Poggio Civitate, Mediterranean archaeology and Indo-European metrical poetry. His areas of specialization include Etruscan and ancient textiles and he is the Director of Excavations for Poggio Civitate, Italy.

This free event is co-sponsored by the Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology at Willamette University and is open to the general public.

We hope you can join us.

Sincerely,
Scott Pike & Ann Nicgorski

Scott Pike
President of Salem Society AIA
Associate Professor & Chair
Environmental and Earth Sciences Department
Willamette University
900 State Street
Salem, Oregon 97301 US


Ann M. Nicgorski
Director
Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology
Willamette University
900 State Street
Salem, Oregon 97301 USA