Spinning Fates and the Song of the Loom
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Marie-Louise Nosch is a historian and director of the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Textile Research (CTR) at the University of Copenhagen and the National Museum of Denmark. She is a professor in ancient history. As director of the CTR, she has launched research programmes combining history, archaeology and natural sciences. Mary Harlow is an ancient historian, senior lecturer at the School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester. She works on Roman dress and the Roman life course. Her research combines literary studies, iconography and archaeology and methodologies derived from history, anthropology and sociology. Giovanni Fanfani is a classical philologist and postdoctoral researcher at the Danish National Foundation’s Centre for Textile Research (CTR), University of Copenhagen. His research focuses the role and function of textile imagery in archaic Greek poetry, and on intertextuality in Euripidean tragedy.