Curriculum Vitae

Francesco Camia, Assistant Researcher
Southern Greece Programme

Address
National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF)
Institute of Historical Research (IHR)
Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity (KERA)
48 Vassileos Constantinou Ave., Athens 11635, Greece
Tel.+ 30 210-7273698
Fax + 30 210-7234145
email: fcamia

Francesco Camia was born in Cesena (Italy) in 1976. He graduated from the Classics Department of the University of Rome ''La Sapienza'' in 2000, was a member of the Italian Archaeological School at Athens (S.A.I.A.), where he specialized in Greek epigraphy (2001-2003), and obtained his Ph.D. in Ancient History from the University of Rome ''La Sapienza'' in 2007. He has taken part in several archaeological excavations, both in Italy and Greece (Crete and Lemnos). He has worked as adjunct assistant professor of Classics at the John Cabot University of Rome (2008). Since 2008 he is a member of the Southern Greece Programme at KERA/NHRF.

Research interests 
Greek and Roman Epigraphy, Roman Greece, Religion, Roman imperial cult, Relations between Greek cities and Rome, Ancient economy.

Ongoing projects

• A prosopography of the Athenian priests in the Roman imperial period

• Economic aspects of religious life in Roman Greece [*part of a larger research programme on the economy and society of Greek cities under Roman rule (KERA)].

• The financing of public honours in Greece in the Roman Imperial period [*in the context of the international research programme "Civic Honours. The politics of honor in the Greek cities of Roman Imperial Times" coordinated by O. van Nijf (University of Groningen) and A. Heller (University of Tours)].

• Gladiatorial inscriptions in the province of Achaia [*in the context of a programme on the gladiatorial inscriptions in the provinces of the Roman Empire coordinated by G.L. Gregori (University of Rome "La Sapienza")]

• Survey in the Aigialeia region (Achaia) [*in collaboration with the 6th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities and the Italian Archaeological School at Athens]

Publications

Monographs
-Roma e le poleis. L'intervento di Roma nelle controversie territoriali tra le comunita greche di Grecia e d'Asia Minore nel secondo secolo a.C.: le testimonianze epigrafiche, Atene 2009.
-Theoi Sebastoi. Il culto degli imperatori romani in Grecia (provincia Achaia) nel secondo secolo d.C., Atene 2011.

Edition of collective volumes
-Pathways to Power: Civic Elites in the Eastern Part of the Roman Empire (Proceedings of an International Workshop held at Athens, Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene, 19 December 2005) (Athens 2008) [with A.D. Rizakis].
-Obeloi. Contatti, scambi e valori nel Mediterraneo antico. Studi offerti a Nicola Parise (Paestum 2009) [with S. Privitera].

Selected recent articles
-"Imperatori romani tra gli dei greci: riflessioni sull'associazione tra culto imperiale e culti tradizionali in Grecia a partire dalla documentazione epigrafica", in F. Camia - S. Privitera (eds.), Obeloi. Contatti, scambi e valori nel Mediterraneo antico, Paestum 2009, 205-222.
-"The imperial cult in the Peloponnese", in A.D. Rizakis - Cl. Lepenioti (eds.), Roman Peloponnese III. Society, economy and culture under the Roman Empire: continuity and innovation, Athens 2010, 375-406 [with M. Kantirea].
-"Le tribu romane nelle colonie d'Asia Minore", in M. Silvestrini (ed.), Le tribu romane. Atti della XVIe Rencontre sur l'epigraphie (Bari 8-10 ottobre 2009), Bari 2010, 367-371. 
-"ΔΑΖΙΜΟΣ ΧΑΙΡΕ. Ricognizioni archeologiche e scoperte epigrafiche nel territorio di Montescaglioso: nota preliminare", Siris 11 (2010-2011), 111-122 [with D. Roubis].
-"Lykos, son of Hermolaos, hiereus heptaeterikos of the Sebastoi. Emperor Worship and Traditional Cults at Thessalian Hypata (SEG 54, 556)", ZPE 179 (2011), 145-154.
-"Spending on the agones: the financing of festivals in the cities of Roman Greece", Tyche 26 (2011), 41-76.
-"Theoi Olympioi e Theoi Sebastoi: alcune considerazioni sull'associazione tra culto imperiale e culti tradizionali in Grecia", στο E. Franchi, G. Proietti (επιμ.), Forme della memoria e dinamiche identitarie nell'antichita greco-romana (Quaderni 2), Trento 2012, 93-110.
-"A note on the Athenian hiereus of Drusus hypatos", Τεκμήρια 11 (2012).