Curriculum Vitae

  Francesco Camia, Assistant Researcher
Southern Greece Programme

Address
National Hellenic Research Foundation (N.H.R.F.)
Institute for Greek and Roman Antiquity (K.E.R.A.)
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 K.E.R.A./N.H.R.F.

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

Major ongoing projects

• The Roman imperial cult in Greece
• Economic activity and social dynamics in Roman Athens [*part of a larger project on the economy and society of Roman Greece] (K.E.R.A./N.H.R.F.).
• Gladiatorial inscriptions in the Greek-speaking provinces of the Roman Empire [*continuation of a project on the gladiatorial inscriptions of the provinces of the Roman Empire in collaboration with the University of Rome ''La Sapienza''].
  

Publications

Monographs
-Roma e le poleis. L'intervento di Roma nelle controversie territoriali tra le comunità greche di Grecia e d'Asia Minore nel secondo secolo a.C.: le testimonianze epigrafiche (Athens 2009).

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) [με τον Α.Δ. Ριζάκη].
-Obeloi. Contatti, scambi e valori nel Mediterraneo antico. Studi offerti a Nicola Parise (Paestum 2009) [with S. Privitera].

Selected recent articles
-''Il ''testamento'' di Rebilus e l'epistola di Vinuleius Pataecius ai Tasii'', ZPE 146 (2004), 265-271.
-''I curatores rei publicae nella provincia d'Acaia'', MEFRA 119/2 (2007), 409-419.
-''Imperial Priests in Second Century Greece: a Socio-political Analysis'', in A. D. Rizakis - F. Camia (eds.), 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, 25-43.
-''Magistrati municipali e svolgimento delle carriere nelle colonie romane della provincia d'Acaia''. in C. Berrendonner - M. Cébeillac-Gervasoni - L. Lamoine (eds.), Le quotidien municipal dans l'Occident romain, Clermont-Ferrand 2008, 233-245 [με τον Α.Δ. Ριζάκη].
-"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