Larissa Bonfante

Biographic Data

ID554108
NAMELarissa Bonfante
GIVEN NAMESLarissa
FAMILY NAMEBonfante
SIGNATUREBONFANTE L
AFFILIATIONSNew York University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS32
TOTAL CITATIONS68
WORKS AS AUTHOR32
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX3

  • Fufluns Pacha

    Larissa Bonfante, Thomas H Carpenter et al.CHAPTERMasks of Dionysus2019

  • Etruscan

    Larissa BonfanteCHAPTERThe Oxford Handbook of the…2016

    This article provides an overview of Etruscan literature. It considers how the Greek innovations of myth and writing came into Etruria, how the Etruscans viewed early writing as magical, and how Etruscan culture developed its own identity. It discusses the Etruscan language, written documents, and inscriptions, as well as religious ritual, divination, and prophecy. It also examines Etruscan historical epic and myth, theatre, and imagery. Finally,…

  • Mothers and Children

    Larissa BonfanteCHAPTEREtruscan World2015

  • The Conception of Women in Athenian Drama

    Larissa BonfanteCHAPTERReflections of Women in Antiquity2013

    Non-Archaeologists cannot easily imagine the difficulty of interpreting archaeological evidence so as to understand the role of women in an ancient society. By its very nature, archaeological evidence is incomplete, and must be interpreted with the help of literary sources in order to be used as history. The Etruscan situation is therefore particularly instructive as a test case, since we have none of their literature. What we know about this peo…

  • Lionel Casson (1914–2009)

    Larissa BonfanteARTICLEThe Classical World2009

    Lionel Casson (1914–2009) Larissa Bonfante In accepting the Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement of the Archaeological Institute of America in 2005, Jimmy Casson, as his friends called him, tells the story of the encounter that confirmed his early fascination with ships and the sea. In 1953 he met Jacques Cousteau, the noted oceanographer, at the now famous site of the Grand Congloué, near Marseilles. He was involved in a TV taping showing ho…

  • Searching for Etruscan Identity

    Helen Nagy, Larissa Bonfante et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Archaeology2008

  • Discs of Splendor

    Larissa BonfanteARTICLEThe Classical World2007

    Reviewed by: Discs of Splendor: The Relief Mirrors of the Etruscans Larissa Bonfante Alexandra A. Carpino . Discs of Splendor: The Relief Mirrors of the Etruscans. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 156. $45.00. ISBN 0-299-18990-2. The Corpus of Etruscan Mirrors (Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum, CSE) is well on its way to publishing the three thousand or so surviving bronze mirrors produced for the women of Etruria, who used the…

  • The Etruscan Language

    Rex Wallace, Giuliano Bonfante et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World2004

  • Etruscan textiles and dress

    Larissa BonfanteCHAPTER2003

  • Etruscan Dress

    Larissa BonfanteBOOKEtruscan dress2003

  • The Origin of the Romance Languages

    Shane H Hawkins, Giuliano Bonfante et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World2001

  • The World of Roman Costume

    Chester F Natunewicz, Judith Lynn Sebesta et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1997

    Greeks and Romans felt that nationality could be identified by dress as well as by language. Examining the ways the women and men of antiquity presented themselves through their dress provides valuable insight into their social institutions; concepts of rank, gender, and status; cultural symbols; role playing; and self-identification. These concerns shape The World of Roman Costume, an extensive investigation of Roman dress, following the pioneer…

  • Massimo Pallottino, 1909-1995

    Larissa BonfanteARTICLEAmerican Journal of Archaeology1996

  • Dionysius and the History of Archaic Rome

    Larissa Bonfante, Emilio GabbaARTICLEThe Classical World1992

  • Etruscan

    Rex E Wallace, Rex Wallace et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1991

  • The Plays of Hrotswitha of Gandersheim

    Robert P Sonkowsky, Larissa Bonfante et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1989

  • The Roman Mother

    Larissa Bonfante, Suzanne DixonARTICLEThe Classical World1989

  • Nudity as a Costume in Classical Art

    Larissa BonfanteARTICLEAmerican Journal of Archaeology1989Cited by: 53

    The Greeks saw their custom of athletic male nudity as something that set them apart from the barbarians, as well as from their own past. A survey of male nudity as a costume in Greece attempts to trace its origin in eighth-century ritual, its gradual transformation from initiation rites to the "civic" nudity of the Classical period, and its significance in various religious, magic, and social contexts. The character of this institution can be se…

  • Etruskische Meeremischwesen

    Larissa Bonfante, Monika BoosenARTICLEThe Classical World1988

  • Etruscan Life and Afterlife

    Helen Nagy, Larissa BonfanteARTICLEThe Classical World1988Cited by: 6

  • La caccia in Etruria

    Larissa Bonfante, Giovannangelo CamporealeARTICLEThe Classical World1987

  • An Absent Herakles and a Hesperid

    Larissa Bonfante, Candace CarterARTICLEAmerican Journal of Archaeology1987

    The small marble group in the collection of antiquities of New York University, published by Karl Lehmann as "The Girl Beneath the Apple Tree" in AJA 49 (1945) 430-33, can now be reinterpreted. A comparison with a coin from Temenothyrae (Phrygia) of the time of Valerian allows us to reconstruct the group as a representation of Herakles in the Garden of the Hesperides, and to restore a figure of Herakles on the right side of the base, now empty. T…

  • Amber, women, and situla art

    Larissa BonfanteARTICLEJournal of Baltic Studies1985References: 3

    (1985). Amber, women, and situla art. Journal of Baltic Studies: Vol. 16, Studies in Baltic Amber, pp. 276-291

  • Fonologia etrusca, fonetica toscana

    Nigel Vincent, Luciano Agostiniani et al.ARTICLELanguage1985

  • The Etruscan Language

    Jocelyn Penny Small, Giuliano Bonfante et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1985