Phd in PHILOLOGY AND HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT
WORLD

email: francesco.camia@uniroma1.it
phone: 0649913293
building: Facoltà di Lettere
room: 11

Francesco Camia teaches Greek Epigraphy at the Classics Department of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. After specializing in Archaeology and Greek epigraphy at the Italian Archaeological School at Athens (2001-2003), in 2007 he received a PhD in Ancient History at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. From 2008 to 2015 he was Researcher at the Institute of Historical Research (Section of Greek and Roman Antiquity) of the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens. His research activity is focused on the study of the Greek world in the Roman period, with a specific interest in issues related to the religious landscape of cities (cultic, social and institutional aspects) and its economic and financial implications. His research covers the following topics: Greek epigraphy; Greek religion; economy of cults; institutional and social aspects in the Greek world during the Roman period; Roman Thrace. He has studied in depth the Roman imperial cult in Greece, a topic on which he has published various articles and the monograph Theoi Sebastoi. Il culto degli imperatori romani in Grecia (provincia Achaia) nel secondo secolo d.C. (Athens 2011), as well as the relations between Rome and the Greek poleis in the Hellenistic period (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). He is preparing a prosopography of the Athenian priests in the Roman imperial period. He is co-founder and member of the organizing committee of the “Roman Seminar”.