 In both Greece and Republican Rome, respectable women were mostly confined to the house and mixed-sex socialising did not occur.Thus the freedom of women within Etruscan society could have been misunderstood as implying their sexual availability.It is worth noting that a number of Etruscan tombs carry funerary inscriptions in the form 'X son of [father] and [mother]', indicating the importance of the mother's side of the family.