Dr. Nancy T. de Grummond

M. Lynette Thompson Professor of Classics

Research and Teaching Specializations

• Etruscan and Roman archaeology
• Etruscan and Roman Myth, Religion and Magic
• Art and Archaeology of the Hellenistic World
• Ancient Carved Gems

Background

Nancy T. de Grummond (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is the M. Lynette Thompson Professor of Classics and has been named Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University. She specializes in Etruscan, Hellenistic and Roman archaeology. She serves as director of  excavations for “Cetamura, Archaeology in Tuscany,” sponsored by International Programs of FSU. Most recently, Dr. de Grummond has created an exhibition of the results of her excavations entitled “The Sanctuary of the Etruscan Artisans at Cetamura del Chianti: The Legacy of Alvaro Tracchi,” which was displayed in June and July, 2009, at the Casa Masaccio in San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy. The show has now been relocated on a long-term basis to the Badia a Coltibuono at Gaiole in the region of Chianti, Italy.

Research Projects in Progress

• Ritual Sacrifice in Etruscan Religion
• Prophets and Divination as represented in ancient art (Greek, Etruscan and Roman)
• Etruscan Systems of Writing

Awards and Honors
Dr. de Grummond is an elected foreign member of the Istituto di Studi Etruschi ed Italici, based in Florence, Italy. She has been recognized for excellence in teaching at Florida State University four times, including the Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor Award from FSU (2009).

Recent Publications and Lectures

• The Sanctuary of the Etruscan Artisans at Cetamura del Chiant: The Legacy of Alvaro Tracchi, Florence, 2009. (Catalogue of exhibition)
• Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum, Great Britain 3: Oxford (Corpus of Etruscan Mirrors), Rome, 2007.
• Etruscan Myth, Sacred History and Legend, Philadelphia, 2006.
• The Religion of the Etruscans, ed. and author, with Erika Simon, Austin, 2006.

• “Etruscan Religion,” chapter, forthcoming in The Cambridge History of Ancient Religions, ed. M. Sweeney and M. Salzman (Cambridge U. Press)
• “The Etruscans: History and Religion,” forthcoming in Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, Oxford University Press.
• “Moon Over Pyrgi: Catha, An Etruscan Lunar Goddess?”American Journal of Archaeology 112 (2008), 419-428.

• “Visions of Prophecy in Etruscan, Greek, and Roman Art,” at the Meadows Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas (April, 2009)
• "The Sacred Area at Cetamura del Chianti: The Sanctuary of the Etruscan Artisans," McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (Edward Togo Salmon Visiting Professor, March, 2008).
• “Etruscan Lightning Livers, and Lore: Myth and Ritual in Ancient Etruria,” Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, October, 2007

Recent Courses

• Ancient Myth East and West
• I, Claudius (Honors Course)

• Etruscan Art and Archaeology
• Art and Archaeology of the Early Roman Empire

• Ancient Carved Gems (Seminar)
•  Sanctuaries of Ancient Italy (Seminar)