- List of contributors –
xxxiiie civiltà (2000) has gone into a third edition, and has appeared in German translation; Gli Etruschi
fuori dell’Etruria (2001). It has also been issued in an English-language edition, The Etruscans
Outside Etruria (2004).
Alexandra A. Carpino is Professor of Art History and Chair of the Department of Comparative
Cultural Studies at Northern Arizona University. She is the author of Discs of Splendor: The Relief
Mirrors of the Etruscans (2003) and has written articles on the historical, social and cultural meanings
of the narratives found on engraved bronze mirrors. She is also the co-editor of the (forthcoming)
Companion to the Etruscans (Wiley-Blackwell 2014), and the editor-in-chief of Etruscan Studies:
Journal of the Etruscan Foundation.
Armando Cherici graduated from the Facoltà di Lettere of Florence University with a thesis in
Etruscology, and earned the title of Dottore di Ricerca in Archeologia Italica at the University of
Rome “La Sapienza.” He holds a post-doctoral position at the University of Florence, where he
teaches courses in Etruscology for the Centro di Cultura per Stranieri. He has held conferences
and seminars in Italic Archaeology at the Sorbonne and University of Nantes, at the Scuola di
Specializzazione in Archeologia of Florence University as well as the École Normale Supérieure
of France. He has been a member of the scientifi c staff of the CNRS/University of Tübingen
Franco-German excavations at Castellina del Marangone (Rome), and collaborated in publication
of the Lexicon der Antike “Neue Pauly,” Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC), and
the Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum (ThesCRA), and his numerous articles have appeared in
archaeological and scientifi c journals. He is a member of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut,
the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi e Italici, and the Academia Etrusca of Cortona.
Ross Cowan is an independent scholar. He studied Classics at the University of Glasgow (MA
1997, PhD 2003), and is the author of six books and numerous articles on all aspects of Roman
warfare. He has a particular interest in the military organizations and arms and armour of the
peoples of pre-Roman Italy. Publications relevant to this project include “An important Italic
helmet rediscovered” (in Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 37, 2007) and Roman Conquests: Italy
(Barnsley, 2009).
Mariassunta Cuozzo is Associate Professor in Etruscology and Italic Archaeology at the University
of Molise and at the University of Naples “Orientale.” Her most relevant book for Etruscan
studies is: Reinventando la tradizione. Immaginario sociale, ideologie e rappresentazione nelle necropoli
orientalizzanti di Pontecagnano, Paestum (Salerno) 2003. She has published widely on Campanian,
Greek, Etruscan and Italic Archaeology and on theoretical issues in European Archaeology. She is
currently director of excavations in the Etruscan-Campanian settlement of Pontecagnano.
Francesco de Angelis holds a PhD in Classical Art and Archaeology from the Scuola Normale
Superiore in Pisa, and is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and
Archaeology at Columbia University in New York. Among his interests are mythological images
and their contexts; the role of monuments in the transmission of cultural memory and identity;
the reception of the classical past in modern scholarship. He is the author of a monograph on the
funerary urns of Chiusi, Miti greci in tombe etrusche. Le urne cinerarie di Chiusi (Rome: Accademia dei
Lincei, 2012), and of numerous articles about Greek, Etruscan, and Roman art. He also has edited
several books, the most recent of which is Spaces of Justice in the Roman World (Leiden-New York:
Brill, 2010).
Nancy Thomson de Grummond is M. Lynette Thompson Professor of Classics at the Florida
State University and specializes in Etruscan, Roman and Hellenistic art and archaeology, with
special interests in Etruscan art, myth and religion. She directs the FSU excavations at the Etruscan