{"id":673,"date":"2022-02-08T00:17:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T05:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=673"},"modified":"2022-02-08T00:28:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T05:28:03","slug":"new-light-on-the-etruscans","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/lecture\/new-light-on-the-etruscans\/","title":{"rendered":"New Light on the Etruscans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Christopher Smith, Director, British School in Rome<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Professor Smith\u2019s lecture on the Etruscans will cover new theories on the mysterious Etruscans who retain their fascination for modern audiences \u2013 the combination of stunning artwork, and the alleged \u2018mystery\u2019 of their language and origins are enticing. In this lecture, recent work in Etruria will be discussed which begins to change the ways we think about the Etruscans \u2013 and to make them at the same time somewhat less mysterious, but perhaps even more interesting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Christopher Smith was educated at Oxford University, and is Professor of Ancient <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">History at the University of St Andrews. He is currently Director of the British School at Rome, a leading research centre for archaeology, art history, history and the fine arts, which has also been a centre for Canadian scholarship. His work embraces the archaeology of early Rome, and the traditions about the early city, and he is also the editor of a major new edition of the fragmentary Roman historians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Organized by the Greek and Roman Studies, Department at Carleton University, i<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">n partnership with CIMS and the Archaeological Institute of America.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Smith, British School in Rome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[58,20],"tribe_events_cat":[17],"class_list":["post-673","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tag-etruscans","tag-italy","tribe_events_cat-ottawa-chapter","cat_ottawa-chapter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/673\/revisions\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}