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    Classics Presents Dr. Bice Peruzzi!

    When:
    Wednesday, March 13, 2024
    2:30 PM 鈥 4:00 PM
    Where:
    Watson Hall
    Room: 517
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    Description:

    Drunken Women with Spears? Funerary Practices and Female Identity in pre-Roman Apulia

    Before the Roman conquest, Central Apulia was inhabited by a
    population traditionally known as the Peucetians. Although the
    Peucetians have left no written records and were largely ignored by
    ancient sources, the thousands of tombs excavated in Central Apulia
    speak of a society with a complex social hierarchy and long-range
    commercial contacts with Etruria, Greece, and other parts of Southern
    Italy.
    Perhaps unexpectedly, these graves also show that in the Classical and
    Hellenistic periods, Peucetian women enjoyed a more emancipated
    existence than their Athenian counterparts. Besides objects related to
    what are traditionally understood as female roles (e.g., weaving, child
    rearing, performing libations) funerary assemblages dated between the
    6th and 4th century BCE also included full banqueting sets, virtually
    identical to those found in male tombs. A few older women were even
    buried with spears, maybe to indicate their exceptional role in the
    community. This talk explores the relationship between the consumption
    of artifacts and the lives of Peucetian women in antiquity and discusses
    more broadly about how our modern ideas about 鈥渇emale assemblages鈥
    are often in contrast with the reality of the archaeological record.

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