Gisela Marie Augusta Richter was a British-American classical archaeologist and art historian. She was a prominent figure and an authority in her field.
In Ancient Greece,the symposium was the part of a banquet that took place after the meal,when drinking for pleasure was accompanied by music,dancing,recitals,or conversation. Literary works that describe or take place at a symposium include two Socratic dialogues,Plato's Symposium and Xenophon's Symposium,as well as a number of Greek poems,such as the elegies of Theognis of Megara. Symposia are depicted in Greek and Etruscan art,that shows similar scenes.
Frank Edward Brown was a preeminent Mediterranean archaeologist.
Vetulonia,formerly called Vetulonium,was an ancient town of Etruria,Italy,the site of which is probably occupied by the modern village of Vetulonia,which up to 1887 bore the name of Colonnata and Colonna di Buriano:the site is currently a frazione of the comune of Castiglione della Pescaia,with some 400 inhabitants.
John Bryan Ward-Perkins,was a British Classical architectural historian and archaeologist,and director of the British School at Rome.
Otto Johannes Brendel was a German art historian and scholar of Etruscan art and archaeology.
Larissa Bonfante was an Italian-American classicist,Professor of Classics emerita at New York University and an authority on Etruscan language and culture.
Nancy Thomson de Grummond is the M. Lynette Thompson Professor of Classics and Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University. She specializes in Etruscan,Hellenistic and Roman archaeology. She serves as the director of archaeological excavations at Cetamura del Chianti in Tuscany,Italy. Her current research relates to Etruscan and Roman religion,myth and iconography.
David Ridgway was a British scholar of Italian archaeology and the Etruscans.
Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Notre Dame. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.
Barbara A. Barletta was a prominent American Classical archaeologist and architectural historian.
Inez Gertrude Scott Ryberg was an American classical archaeologist and academic,who specialized in archaeology,Roman art and architecture.
Anna Marguerite McCann was an American art historian and archaeologist. She is known for being an early influencer—and the first American woman—in the field of underwater archaeology,beginning in the 1960s. McCann authored works pertaining to Roman art and Classical archaeology,and taught both art history and archaeology at various universities in the United States. McCann was an active member of the Archaeological Institute of America,and received its Gold Medal Award in 1998. She also published under the name Anna McCann Taggart.
Eleanor Winsor Leach was the Ruth N. Halls Professor with the Department of Classical Studies at Indiana University. She was a trustee of the Vergilian Society in 1978–83 and was second and then first vice-president in 1989–92. Leach was the president of the Society of Classical Studies in 2005/6,and the chair of her department (1978–1985). She was very involved with academics and younger scholars –directing 26 dissertations,wrote letters for 200 tenure and promotion cases,and refereed more than 100 books and 200 articles. Leach's research interests included Roman painting,Roman sculpture,and Cicero and Pliny's Letters. She published three books and more than 50 articles. Leach's work had an interdisciplinary focus,reading Latin texts against their social,political,and cultural context. From the 1980s onwards,she combined her work on ancient literature with the study of Roman painting,monuments,and topography.
Barbara Elisabeth Borg is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Scuola Normale Superiore. She is known in particular for her work on Roman tombs,the language of classical art,and geoarchaeology.
Lisa C. Nevett is a Professor of Classical Archaeology in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan,and Director of the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology. Prior to joining Michigan she was a Lecturer in Classical Studies at The Open University,1996-2003 and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Archaeology Department at Durham University,1993-1996.
Rex E. Wallace is an American linguist and classical scholar specializing in Etruscan language,languages of ancient Italy,epigraphy,historical linguistics. He served as Professor of Classics at University of Massachusetts Amherst from 1985 until his retirement in 2018.
Diane Atnally Conlin is an American classicist and archaeologist specializing in the art in architecture of ancient Rome. She is an associate professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and directs its excavations at the Villa of Maxentius.
Richard Brilliant is an American art historian,university professor,and writer whose work combines a specialist knowledge of ancient Greek and Roman art with overarching themes in the history and theory of art. As noted by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,he “transformed the field of classical art,opening it up to new critical methods of historical and stylistic analysis.”His publications,landmarks in the field,have raised the reputation of Roman art,especially that of the later period,which had been disparaged by earlier nineteenth and twentieth pro-Greek critics and scholars. Encouraged by his broad vision and scope of interests,his students have pursued significant careers as academics,researchers,and practitioners in the field of classical art history.
