Books by Francesco Camia
F. Camia, F. Guizzi (eds.), Notizie delle epigrafi greche. Ricerche, progetti, prospettive di una disciplina (Atti del Settimo Seminario Avanzato di Epigrafia Greca (SAEG), Sapienza Università di Roma, 26-28 gennaio 2022), Scienze dell’Antichità 29.2 (2023), Roma, 2023
Scrittura epigrafica e sacro in Italia dall’Antichità al Medioevo. Luoghi, oggetti e frequentazioni (Atti del workshop internazionale, Sapienza Università di Roma, 15-17 dicembre 2021), Scienze dell’Antichità 28.2 (2022), 2022
Classics@Harvard - The Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021
At the beginning of the first century BC Athens was an independent city bound to Rome through a f... more At the beginning of the first century BC Athens was an independent city bound to Rome through a friendship alliance. By the end of the first century AD the city had been incorporated into the Roman province of Achaea. Along with Athenian independence perished the notion of Greek self-rule. The rest of Achaea was ruled by the governor of Macedonia already since 146 BC, but the numerous defections of Greek cities during the first century BC show that Roman rule was not yet viewed as inevitable.
In spite of the definitive loss of self-rule this was not a period of decline. Attica and the Peloponnese were special regions because of their legacy as cultural and religious centres of the Mediterranean. Supported by this legacy communities and individuals engaged actively with the increasing presence of Roman rule and its representatives. The archaeological and epigraphic records attest to the continued economic vitality of the region: buildings, statues, and lavish tombs were still being constructed. There is hence need to counterbalance the traditional discourses of weakness on Roman Greece, and to highlight how acts of remembering were employed as resources in this complex political situation.
The legacy of Greece defined Greek and Roman responses to the changing relationship. Both parties looked to the past in shaping their interactions, but how this was done varied widely. Sulla fashioned himself after the tyrant-slayers Harmodius and Aristogeiton, while Athenian ephebes evoked the sea-battles of the Persian Wars to fashion their valour. This interdisciplinary volume traces strategies of remembering in city building, funerary culture, festival and association, honorific practices, Greek literature, and political ideology. The variety of these strategies attests to the vitality of the region. In times of transition the past cannot be ignored: actors use what came before, in diverse and complex ways, in order to build the present.
Available open access at: https://www.sidestone.com/books/strategies-of-remembering-in-greece-under-rome-100-bc-100-ad
What’s New in Roman Greece? Recent Work on the Greek Mainland and the Islands in the Roman Period. Proceedings of a Conference held at Athens, 8-10 October 2015, 2018
Munus Laetitiae. Studi miscellanei offerti a Maria Letizia Lazzarini, a cura di Francesco Camia, Lavinio Del Monaco, Michela Nocita (con la collaborazione di Lucia D'Amore, Paola Grandinetti, Giulio Vallarino), Roma, Sapienza Università Editrice, 2018
Students, colleagues, and friends are delighted to offer to Maria Letizia Lazzarini a Festschrift... more Students, colleagues, and friends are delighted to offer to Maria Letizia Lazzarini a Festschrift on the occasion of her recent retirement from teaching. The two-volume Festschrift includes contributions on numerous topics (new documents, institutional aspects, society and economy, cults, onomastics, etc.) by almost fifty scholars.
Social dynamics under Roman rule. Mobility and status change in the provinces of Achaia and Macedonia. Proceedings of a conference held in Athens, May 30th-31st 2014 (Meletemata 74), Athens, 2017
Papers by Francesco Camia
Mythos. Rivista di Storia delle religioni, 2024
The 5th century Athenian decree IG I3 7 preserves a Delphic oracle on the cult prerogatives of th... more The 5th century Athenian decree IG I3 7 preserves a Delphic oracle on the cult prerogatives of the genos of the Praxiergidai, who were responsible for the archaic cult statue of Athena Polias on the Acropolis. The response, in prose, prescribes to put the peplos on the statue of Athena, and to make sacrifices to the Moirai, Zeus Moiragetes, and Ge. After a new analysis of the inscription, based on autopsy of the stone, the present paper focuses on the reconstruction (and interpretation) of the oracular response and its epigraphical context.
F. Camia, L. Del Monaco, “Verso Occidente …”: da Paros a Delfi a Pharos (SEG 23, 489)”, in M. Giangiulio, G. Proietti (eds.), Oracoli delfici e storia greca (Quaderni 16), Trento 2023, 179-210., 2023
Between the end of the 3rd and the early 2nd century BC the Pharians sent ambassadors to their mo... more Between the end of the 3rd and the early 2nd century BC the Pharians sent ambassadors to their motherland Paros, asking for help. The Parians decreed publicly to consult the Delphic oracle. The response, of which only three extremely fragmentary verses are preserved, was inscribed together with the Pharian and the Parian decrees on a stele which was set up in the Dalmatian island of Hvar (ancient Pharos). After providing a hypothetical reconstruction of the content (and meaning) of this metrical response, the present article offers a historical contextualization for it and tries to locate it within the extant Delphic oracular production.
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 225 (2023) 79-81
M. Papini (ed.), Opus imperfectum. Monumenti e testi incompiuti del mondo greco e romano (Sapienza Università di Roma, 14-15 marzo 2019), Scienze dell’Antichità 25.3 (2019), 179-190
M. Bentz, M. Heinzelmann (eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology Cologne/Bonn, 22 – 26 May 2018 Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World. Volume 55: Sessions 6 – 8 – Single Contributions, Heidelberg 2023, 2023
General introduction to the volume, offering an overview of the different aspects (rural and urba... more General introduction to the volume, offering an overview of the different aspects (rural and urban landscape, society, economy, religion, visual culture, reception of Roman Greece) involved in the interpretation of Greece during the Roman Perio
D. Grigoropoulos, V. Di Napoli, V. Evangelidis, F. Camia, D. Rogers, S. Vlizos, “Roman Greece and the ‘Mnemonic Turn’. Some Critical Remarks”, in T.M. Dijkstra, I.N.I. Kuin, M. Moser, D. Weidgenannt (eds.), Strategies of remembering in Greece under Rome (100 BC - 100 AD), Leiden, 21-35, 2017
A. Kouremenos (ed.), The Province of Achaea in the 2nd Century CE. The Past Present, London and New York 2022, 2022
In the multitude of testimonies pertaining to the cults and honors for Hadrian that can be connec... more In the multitude of testimonies pertaining to the cults and honors for Hadrian that can be connected to the physical presence of the “restless emperor”, the case of Greece is rather anomalous if one compares the sheer number and importance of cultic (and honorific) attestations for him with the relative scarcity of the evidence on imperial cult in the province of Achaea. In this chapter I argue that the abundance of evidence that “old Greece” provides for the worship of Hadrian can be linked to the philhellene emperor’s personal inclination toward this region. I will concentrate primarily on the ways Hadrian’s proverbial philhellenism is reflected in the worship that he received in Greece. I will focus on Athens, not only because this city has yielded most of the evidence on the cult of Hadrian in the province of Achaea, but also because one can argue that his worship in Athens reveals a direct expression of the emperor’s privileged link with the city. Indeed, the sheer number and types of testimonies of the cult of Hadrian in Athens may be seen as a direct reflection of the city’s pivotal role in the emperor’s Panhellenic program. Athens’ connection with its glorious past as well as its ongoing cultural primacy in Roman Greece and the Graeco-Roman Empire in general played a central role in the realization of the new imperial policy. After presenting an overview of the available evidence from cult places, festivals, and priesthoods, I shed light on the main features of this imperial cult against the background of key concepts of Hadrian’s relationship with the Greek world.
Germanico Cesare a un passo dall'Impero, a cura di M. Barbanera, 2020
Germanico, pur senza essere stato un principe, gode, nella documentazione epigrafica in lingua la... more Germanico, pur senza essere stato un principe, gode, nella documentazione epigrafica in lingua latina e greca, almeno per tutta l’età giulio-claudia, di una presenza costante e superiore perfino a quella di alcuni dei primi imperatori, non solo per la buona memoria che egli lasciò di sé, ma anche perché tutti e tre i successori di Tiberio – Caligola,
Claudio e Nerone – discendevano direttamente da lui (in quanto rispettivamente figlio, fratello e nipote di Germanico) ed ebbero loro stessi ogni interesse a perpetuarne il ricordo. Ancora al tempo di Severo Alessandro, del resto, almeno presso gli accampamenti militari il suo dies natalis era festeggiato con una supplicatio, caso isolato in un contesto che vedeva festeggiamenti solo per Divi e Divae e per le ricorrenze legate all’imperatore vivente.
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Books by Francesco Camia
In spite of the definitive loss of self-rule this was not a period of decline. Attica and the Peloponnese were special regions because of their legacy as cultural and religious centres of the Mediterranean. Supported by this legacy communities and individuals engaged actively with the increasing presence of Roman rule and its representatives. The archaeological and epigraphic records attest to the continued economic vitality of the region: buildings, statues, and lavish tombs were still being constructed. There is hence need to counterbalance the traditional discourses of weakness on Roman Greece, and to highlight how acts of remembering were employed as resources in this complex political situation.
The legacy of Greece defined Greek and Roman responses to the changing relationship. Both parties looked to the past in shaping their interactions, but how this was done varied widely. Sulla fashioned himself after the tyrant-slayers Harmodius and Aristogeiton, while Athenian ephebes evoked the sea-battles of the Persian Wars to fashion their valour. This interdisciplinary volume traces strategies of remembering in city building, funerary culture, festival and association, honorific practices, Greek literature, and political ideology. The variety of these strategies attests to the vitality of the region. In times of transition the past cannot be ignored: actors use what came before, in diverse and complex ways, in order to build the present.
Available open access at: https://www.sidestone.com/books/strategies-of-remembering-in-greece-under-rome-100-bc-100-ad
Papers by Francesco Camia
Claudio e Nerone – discendevano direttamente da lui (in quanto rispettivamente figlio, fratello e nipote di Germanico) ed ebbero loro stessi ogni interesse a perpetuarne il ricordo. Ancora al tempo di Severo Alessandro, del resto, almeno presso gli accampamenti militari il suo dies natalis era festeggiato con una supplicatio, caso isolato in un contesto che vedeva festeggiamenti solo per Divi e Divae e per le ricorrenze legate all’imperatore vivente.
In spite of the definitive loss of self-rule this was not a period of decline. Attica and the Peloponnese were special regions because of their legacy as cultural and religious centres of the Mediterranean. Supported by this legacy communities and individuals engaged actively with the increasing presence of Roman rule and its representatives. The archaeological and epigraphic records attest to the continued economic vitality of the region: buildings, statues, and lavish tombs were still being constructed. There is hence need to counterbalance the traditional discourses of weakness on Roman Greece, and to highlight how acts of remembering were employed as resources in this complex political situation.
The legacy of Greece defined Greek and Roman responses to the changing relationship. Both parties looked to the past in shaping their interactions, but how this was done varied widely. Sulla fashioned himself after the tyrant-slayers Harmodius and Aristogeiton, while Athenian ephebes evoked the sea-battles of the Persian Wars to fashion their valour. This interdisciplinary volume traces strategies of remembering in city building, funerary culture, festival and association, honorific practices, Greek literature, and political ideology. The variety of these strategies attests to the vitality of the region. In times of transition the past cannot be ignored: actors use what came before, in diverse and complex ways, in order to build the present.
Available open access at: https://www.sidestone.com/books/strategies-of-remembering-in-greece-under-rome-100-bc-100-ad
Claudio e Nerone – discendevano direttamente da lui (in quanto rispettivamente figlio, fratello e nipote di Germanico) ed ebbero loro stessi ogni interesse a perpetuarne il ricordo. Ancora al tempo di Severo Alessandro, del resto, almeno presso gli accampamenti militari il suo dies natalis era festeggiato con una supplicatio, caso isolato in un contesto che vedeva festeggiamenti solo per Divi e Divae e per le ricorrenze legate all’imperatore vivente.
In spite of the definitive loss of self-rule this was not a period of decline. Attica and the Peloponnese were special regions because of their legacy as cultural and religious centres of the Mediterranean. Supported by this legacy communities and individuals engaged actively with the increasing presence of Roman rule and its representatives. The archaeological and epigraphic records attest to the continued economic vitality of the region: buildings, statues, and lavish tombs were still being constructed. There is hence need to counterbalance the traditional discourses of weakness on Roman Greece, and to highlight how acts of remembering were employed as resources in this complex political situation.
The legacy of Greece defined Greek and Roman responses to the changing relationship. Both parties looked to the past in shaping their interactions, but how this was done varied widely. Sulla fashioned himself after the tyrant-slayers Harmodius and Aristogeiton, while Athenian ephebes evoked the sea-battles of the Persian Wars to fashion their valour. This interdisciplinary volume traces strategies of remembering in city building, funerary culture, festival and association, honorific practices, Greek literature, and political ideology. The variety of these strategies attests to the vitality of the region. In times of transition the past cannot be ignored: actors use what came before, in diverse and complex ways, in order to build the present.
Available open access at: https://www.sidestone.com/books/strategies-of-remembering-in-greece-under-rome-100-bc-100-ad
The lecture is hosted by the Roman Seminar and will be in Greek with English powerpoint
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We are happy to announce the 2017 - 2018 program of lectures
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Roman Seminar
That Athens and Rome needed huge amounts of slaves to function is well known, and their numbers and lives have been the subject of renewed interest in recent years. Much less study has been devoted to their external supply: to the polities that furnished Greek and Roman traders with slaves for work in the mines and on plantations. The evidence is patchy to non- existent, of course. This talk will proceed by analogy, introducing the slaving society of Dahomey, and then showing how the evidence from certain Gallic tribes, and, perhaps, the Odyrissian kingdom, follows similar patterns, and the kinds of evidence that might be used to tease them out.
Please take note of the programme of lectures 2018-2019 of the Roman Seminar.
The Organizing Committee
οικουμένη: Διάχυση, οργάνωση και διείσδυση στις τοπικές κοινωνίες
Σε φιλολογικές πηγές (από τον 3ο αι. π.Χ.) και σε επιγραφικά κείμενα
(από τον 2ο αι. π.Χ. και εξής) εμφανίζονται ομάδες ανθρώπων που
προσδιορίζονται ως Ῥωμαῖοι/cives Romani ή Ἰταλικοί/Italici,
προσδιορισμοί που συχνά συνοδεύονται από όρους, όπως consistentes,
qui consistunt/negotiantur/morantur, κατοικοῦντες, παρεπιδημοῦντες,
πραγματευόμενοι κ.α. Οι κοινότητες αυτές μαρτυρούνται σε όλο το
ρωμαϊκό κόσμο, από το Δούναβη ως τη βόρεια Αφρική κι από την
Ιβηρική χερσόνησο και τη Βρετανία μέχρι τη Συρία, ενώ δεν λείπουν
ενδείξεις της παρουσίας τους κι ακόμη βαθύτερα στην Ανατολή καθώς και πέρα από τα βόρεια σύνορα του ρωμαϊκού κράτους.
Ο ρυθμός εξάπλωσης αυτών των κοινοτήτων, η πιθανότητα εσωτερικής τους οργάνωσης, οι βασικές οικονομικές τους δραστηριότητες, οι τρόποι με τους οποίους προσπαθούν να ενταχθούν ή να διακριθούν στις κοινωνίες που τους φιλοξενούν, θα πρέπει να διερευνηθούν ξεχωριστά για κάθε περιοχή λαμβάνοντας υπ’ όψιν τις κατά τόπους ιδιαιτερότητες και αξιοποιώντας τα διαθέσιμα γραπτά και αρχαιολογικά τεκμήρια. Είναι ωστόσο γενική η διαπίστωση ότι υπήρξε πολύ σημαντικός ο ρόλος των κοινοτήτων αυτών στην κοινωνική και οικονομική ζωή, ακόμη και στη διαμόρφωση μιας νέας φυσιογνωμίας, των περιοχών όπου εγκαταστάθηκαν μόνιμα ή παροδικά, καθώς επρόκειτο για ένα τεράστιο ανθρώπινο δυναμικό που μετακινήθηκε γεμάτο ενθουσιασμό για αναζήτηση του κέρδους, με την σχετική ασφάλεια που παρείχε η σύνδεση με τη Ρώμη μέσα στην «παγκοσμιοποιημένη» οικονομική πραγματικότητα της ύστερης ελληνιστικής και της ρωμαϊκής εποχής.
November 29, 2018, 7 p.m.
The Netherlands Institute at Athens, Library (Makri 11, Athens)
Abstract
This talk will discuss the epigraphic and literary evidence for women’s membership in palaistrai and gymnasia, as well as their victories in the games of the late Hellenistic and early Roman periods in the Greek world. It will become evident that, in spite of the small number of inscriptions and literary references that survive on the topic, we can accept that athleticism and its venues were not an all-male sphere as previously thought, but one where young women athletes participated in and competed at local and Panhellenic festivals.
"What's New in Roman Greece?. Recent Work on the Greek Mainland and the Island in the Roman Period". Eds. V. DI NAPOLI, F. CAMIA, V. EVANGELIDIS, D. GRIGOROPOULOS, D. ROGERS, S. VLIZOS. Meletemata 80 (2019).
This event is organized by the Roman Seminar Research Group and the National Hellenic Research Foundations (EIE).
It will be presented by: S. KREMYDI, V. DI NAPOLI, K. WINTHER-JACOBSEN and P. KARANASTASI.
Monday, 3 June 2019, 'Doro Levi Lecture Hall', 7.00 p.m.
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