Margherita Guglielmina CASSIA

Associate Professor of Roman history [L-ANT/03]
  • Ph.D. in Ancient History (Roma 1997).
  • Research grant in Roman History (Catania 1999-2003).
  • Associate Professor of Roman History at Catania University, Department of Humanities.
  • Member of the Commission for the admission examinations for Master's Degree in Classical Philology, LM-15 from 2011 onwards.
  • Member of the Academic Board of the Research Doctorate (XXXIII cycle) in Heritage Sciences and Cultural Production (University of Catania) coordinated by prof. Pietro Militello.
  • Member of the Giunta of the Department of Humanities for the end of the four-year period 2016-2020.
  • Member of the Giunta of the Department of Humanities for the four-year period 2020-2024.
  • Representative of Associate Professors in the Junta of the Department of Humanities Council  from  the end of 2016 to 2020.
  • Head of the Archeology and Ancient Sciences Section of the Department of Humanities for the four-year period 2021-2025.
  • Member of the Editorial Secretariat of Orpheus. Review of classical and Christian Humanity from 2000.
  • Member of the Consulta Universitaria di Storia Greca e Romana (C.U.S.G.R.) from 2009.
  • Member of the Association Internationale d’Epigraphie grecque et latine (A.I.E.G.L.) from 2017.
  • Member of the Associazione Internazionale di Studi Tardoantichi (A.I.S.T.) from 2017.
  • Member of the Scientific Committee of Incontro di Studio su I segni del potere, il potere dei segni, Catania 20-21 ottobre 2016.
  • Member of the Committee of Editorial Staff of Siculorum Gymnasium. A Journal for the Humanities.
  • Member of Centro di Archeologia Cretese of University of Catania from 2018.

  • Ordinary Member of Società Italiana di Storia della Medicina (S.I.S.M.) from 2019.

  • Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Scientific Journal (Class A) Hormos. Research of Ancient History.

  • Editor of the Series Communitas. Quaderni di filologia, storia e archeologia, from Quasar Publishing House, which adopts double blind peer review processes and has an international scientific committee.

  • Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Scientific Journal Creta Antica, peer reviewed.
  • Member of the Scientific Committee of the Scientific Journal Cronache di Archeologia. Rivista dell’Università di Catania, peer reviewed.
  • Member of the Scientific Committee of the Scientific Journal Archivio Storico Siracusano.
  • Member of the Scientific Committee of the Scientific Series Cronache di Archeologia. Rivista dell’Università di Catania.
  • Member of the Scientific Committee of the Scientific Series Antico.
  • Member of the Scientific Committee of the Scientific Series Philoponìa. Contributi di filologia e letteratura greca e latina.

Up-to-date 29th September 2023

VIEW THE PUBLICATIONS
N.B. the number of publications can affect the loading time of the information
VIEW THE COURSES FROM THE A.Y. 2022/2023 TO THE PRESENT

Academic Year 2021/2022


Academic Year 2020/2021


Academic Year 2019/2020


Academic Year 2018/2019


Academic Year 2017/2018


Academic Year 2016/2017


Academic Year 2015/2016

Cassia's interests include:

  • characteristics and functions of towns and villages in specific Anatolian regional areas (Cappadocia, Pontus)
  • society, economy and culture in the letters of Basil of Caesarea
  • relationship between political history, ethnogeography and family ties in the Augustean Strabo
  • slavery and social mobility in Hellenistic-Roman Anatolia
  • cursus publicus in the Constantinian age
  • role of medicine in society and in the imperial economy
  • relationship between imperial power and the medical profession
  • settlement aspects and economic dynamics in island and Mediterranean contexts (Maltese archipelago, Sicily)
  • university didactics of ancient history
  • female condition and epigraphic evidence in the imperial age (Egypt, Sicily, Asia Minor)
  • didactics and politics between the 2nd and 4th centuries AD in the East

Updates 19th January 2021