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Research Interests: Urbanization and state formation; Greek colonies; Etruscans; pre-Roman cultures of South Italy; ancient imperialism; multiculturalism in the Roman empire; early and republican Rome.

Professor
Classics Department

Caere Excavation Project in Italy.

Degrees

2000 - Diploma of the Post-Graduate School of Archaeology (Scuola di Specializzazione in Archeologia), Classical Archeology, December 20th, 2000, Università di Firenze, "Female funerary contexts with strigils in Magna Graecia", 70/70 cum laude.

1999 - Dottorato di Ricerca (Ph.D.), Greek and Roman Archaeology, Università di Perugia, January 15th, 1999, "Ancona from the Syracusan Colony to the Augustan Age. The Documentation from the Necropolis"

1994 - Laurea in Lettere (M.A.), October 28th, 1994, Università di Firenze, Archaeology and History of Greek and Roman Art, "Late Hellenistic and Roman Alabastra from the Necropolis of Taranto", 110/110 cum laude.

Academic History

2016 - Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Professor

2011 - 2016 Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Associate Professor

2006 - 2011 Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Assistant Professor

2001 - 2006, Università della Basilicata, Potenza-Matera, part-time appointment in Archaeology of pre-Roman Italy

2003 - 2005, University of Siena, heritage courses in Arezzo, part-time appointment in Etruscology

2003-2004, Sometimes Teacher in Etruscology at the Post-graduate School of Archaeology in Siracusa-Catania, Università di Catania.

1999 - 2003, Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Università di Perugia, Italy

Selected Publications

Books

2008 - Archeologia delle regioni d'Italia. L'Umbria, Roma, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 2008 (with C. Zaccagnino), 341 pp. (pp. 1-34, 51-67, 132-146, 161-175, 247-248, 271-273, 305 exclusively by F.C.)

2007 - Materiali in alabastro, vetro, avorio, osso, uova di struzzo (Materiali del Museo Archeologico di Tarquinia, 16), Roma, Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2007, 258 pp.

2004 - Gravisca. Scavi nel santuario greco, 16. I materiali minori (with contributions by G. Gorini, Le monete; C. Sorrentino, I reperti osteologici), Bari, Edipuglia 2004, 235 pp.

2002 - La necropoli di Ancona (IV-I sec.a.C.). Un centro italico fra ellenismo e romanizzazione, (Quaderni di "Ostraka", 7), Napoli, Loffredo Editore, 2002, 510 pp.

2001 -Gli alabastra tardo-ellenistici della necropoli tarantina. Materiali e contesti, (Catalogo del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Taranto III,2), Taranto, Scorpione Editrice, 2001, 321 pp.

Contributions to volumes

- Warriors and Citizens. Models of Self-representation in Native Basilicata, in Verso la città. Forme insediative in Lucania e nel mondo italico tra IV e III sec.a.C., (Conference proceedings, Venosa, May 13th-14th, 2006), Venosa 2009, pp. 69-88.

- Lo specchio e lo strigile. Scambio di simboli e scambio fra i sessi, in F.-H. Massa-Peirault (ed.), L'image antique et son interprétation(Collection de l'École Française de Rome 317), Roma, 2006, pp. 277-300.

2006 - Kantharoi attici per il vino degli Apuli, in Il greco, il barbaro e la ceramica attica. Immaginario del diverso, processi di scambio e autorappresentazione degli indigeni, Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Catania-Caltanissetta-Gela-Camarina-Vittoria-Siracusa, 14-19 maggio 2001, vol. III, L'Erma di Bretschneider, Roma 2006, pp.  117-130.

2002 - Tra banchetto, sonno e morte. Simbologie dionisiache sui letti funebri ellenistici e romani, in I. Colpo, I. Favaretto, F. Ghedini (eds.), Iconografia 2001. Studi sull'immagine, Atti del convegno di studi, Padova, 30-31 maggio / 1 giugno 2001 (Quaderni di Antenor, 1), Roma, Edizioni Quasar 2002, pp. 273-287.

2000 - L'Acropoli: risistemazione e impianto dell'edificio a Sud della cinta, in L. Lepore (ed.),  Il sito antico de "Li Castelli" presso Manduria (Taranto), Atti del Convegno di Firenze, 15-16 Maggio 1997, Manduria, Barbieri, 2000, pp. 141-153.

2000 -Etruscan Bronzes, in M. Torelli (ed.), The Etruscans (Exhibition Catalogue, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, 2000-2001), Milano, Bompiani, 2000, pp. 392-403.

2000 -Etruscan Antiquarianism, in M. Torelli (ed.), The Etruscans (Exhibition Catalogue, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, 2000-2001), Milano, Bompiani, 2000, pp. 506-509.

1998 -Il commercio dei vetri ellenistici in Adriatico: la Daunia e il Piceno, in C. Piccioli, F. Sogliani (eds.), Il vetro in Italia meridionale e insulare, Atti del Primo Convegno Multidisciplinare, Napoli, 5-7 Marzo 1998, Napoli, De Frede Editore, 1999, pp. 109-118.

1996 - Gli alabastra in gesso, in E. Lippolis (ed.), Arte e artigianato in Magna Grecia, (Taranto, Convento di S.Domenico, 30 Giugno - 31 Dicembre 1996), Napoli, Electa 1996, pp.508-511.

1995 - Vasellame marmoreo, in M. Mazzei et al., Arpi. L'ipogeo della Medusa e la necropoli, Bari, Edipuglia 1995, pp.271-284.

Articles

- Hellenism and Romanization at Ancona. A case of ‘invented tradition', Journal of Roman Archaeology, 21, 2008, pp. 31-46.

- La necropoli di Casal Sabini, in Altamura, 45, 2004, (with M. Osanna, D. Venturo, R. Colucci), pp. 208-248. (the above pages are signed exclusively by F.C.)

- Un piccolo insediamento in terra peuceta. Le ricerche della Scuola di Specializzazione in archeologia di Matera a Casal Sabini di Altamura (BA), in Siris. Studi e ricerche della Scuola di Specializzazione in Archeologia di Matera, 5, 2004, (with M. Osanna), pp. 190-194. (the above pages are signed exclusively by F.C.)

- L'altro vino. Vino, cultura e identità nella Puglia e Basilicata anelleniche, in Siris. Studi e ricerche della Scuola di Specializzazione in Archeologia di Matera, 5, 2004, pp. 23-68.

2003 - IlmundusdiClepsinae la topografia di Cerveteri. Scavi dell'Università di Perugia nell'ex vigna Marini - Vitalini, in Science and Technology for Cultural Heritage, 12, 1-2, 2003, pp. 11-42.

Excavations and field surveys

2008 - Torre di Satriano (Potenza, Italy), excavation of an archaic and classical settlement, (July 2nd - 20th) (Queen's University, in collaboration with Universita' della Basilicata).

2007 - Torre di Satriano (Potenza, Italy), excavation of an archaic and classical settlement, (July 2nd - 20th) (Queen's University, in collaboration with Universita' della Basilicata).

2004 - Altamura (Bari, Italy), excavation at Casal Sabini, archaic necropolis and Roman republican kilns (June, 7th-25th) (Università della Basilicata) as director.

2003 - Cerveteri (Rome, Italy), excavation of the Etruscan and Roman cult area around the hypogeum of C. Genucius Clepsina (June, 30th - August, 1st) (Università di Perugia in collaboration with the Soprintendenza Archeologica per l'Etruria Meridionale), as director.

2002 - Cerveteri (Roma, Italy), excavation of the Etruscan and Roman cult area around the hypogeum of C. Genucius Clepsina (July, 8th - August, 2nd) (Università di Perugia in collaboration with the Soprintendenza Archeologica per l'Etruria Meridionale), as director.

2001 - Cerveteri (Rome, Italy), excavation of the Etruscan and Roman cult area around the hypogaeum of C. Genucius Clepsina (September, 4th - 21st, 2001) (Università di Perugia in collaboration with the Soprintendenza Archeologica per l'Etruria Meridionale), as director.

1999 - Li Castelli, Manduria (Taranto, Italy), excavation of a neolithic, iron age and classical settlement, (Università di Firenze), as area supervisor and survey director.

1998 - Li Castelli, Manduria (Taranto, Italy), excavation of a neolithic, iron age and classical settlement, (Università di Firenze), as area supervisor and survey director.

1997 - Li Castelli, Manduria (Taranto, Italy), excavation of a neolithic, iron age and classical settlement, (Università di Firenze), as area supervisor and survey director.

1996 - Li Castelli, Manduria (Taranto, Italy), excavation of a neolithic, iron age and classical settlement, (Università di Firenze), as area supervisor and survey director.

1995 - Fiesole (Firenze, Italy), excavation of the Etruscan and Roman temple (Università di Firenze, Post-Graduate School of Archaeology), as survey director.

1995 - Li Castelli, Manduria (Taranto, Italy), excavation of a neolithic, iron age and classical settlement, (Università di Firenze), as area supervisor and survey director.

1994 - Li Castelli, Manduria (Taranto, Italy), excavation of a neolithic, iron age and classical settlement (Università di Firenze).

Other Activities

a) Conference organisation

2009 - organizer of the session "Native Southern Italy in the Late Republican Period" at the Roman Archaeology Conference, to be held April 3-9, 2009 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (sitemaker.umich.edu/rac2009/home). The proceedings of the session are currently in preparation as a supplement to the Journal of Roman Archaeology.

Research Interests: Cultural interactions and discourses of ethnicity and indigeneity in ancient Greece, Anatolia and the Near East; slavery in the Greco-Roman world and the Near East; calendars, festivals, divination, and other aspects of religion in ancient Greece, Anatolia and the Near East; Greek epigraphy; digital humanities (especially enhancing decipherment and text encoding).

Courses Taught: I normally teach undergraduate Greek history courses, the history of the ancient Near East, as well as a new course on perceptions of ethnicity and indigeneity in the ancient Greek world (CLST 350).

Education

D.Phil. Classics/Ancient History (Oxford), M.A. Classics (McMaster), B.A. Greek (Queen's)

Corpus Project

I am working with Signe Isager  and Poul Pedersen of the University of Southern Denmark on a corpus of the Inscriptions of Halikarnassos. This is a part of the larger working in Bodrum, Turkey.

Ongoing Digital Projects

-: Co-author with Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, Saskia Peels-Matthey, and several other contributors of the Collection of Greek Ritual Norms, based at in Belgium  and the in Paris. This project provides  online editions, translations, and commentaries of Greek inscriptions defining  purification, sacrifice, and other rituals.

-: Co-author with Éric Lhôte of the Choix d'inscriptions oraculaires de Dodone, part of the larger project Dodona on Line (DOL). The CIOD aims to provide new editions, translations, and commentaries of selected tablets from the oracle of Dodona in Epiros.

Editor

I am a member of the editorial board of the periodical which presents new studies on ancient Greek religion, and an associate editor  of the annual . 

Selected Publications (from 2014)

Co-Edited Volumes

2018. with S. Peels-Matthey. Purity and Purification in the Ancient Greek World: Texts, Rituals, and Norms (Kernos, Supplement 32). Presses Universitaires de Liège: Liège. pp. 372. ISBN 9782875621597.

2014. with W. Blümel and R. van Bremen. A Guide to Inscriptions in Milas and its Museum, Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları: Istanbul. pp. viii + 105. ISBN 9786053962830.

Book Chapters and Articles

2021. "Funerals and Foreigners, Founders and Functionaries: On the Boundary Stones of Associations from Kos". In A. Cazemier and S. Skaltsa eds. Associations and Religion in Context: The Hellenistic and Roman Eastern Mediterranean(Kernos Suppl. 38). Presses Universitaires de Liège: Liège. 167-204.

2021. "The Place of Purity: Groups and Associations, Authority and Sanctuaries".In V. Gabrielsen and M. Paganini eds. Private Associations in the Ancient Greek World: Regulations and the Creation of Group Identity. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. 86-116.

2021. “Two Studies on the Epigraphy of Greek Sacrificial Butchery”. In E. Mackil and N. Papazarkadas eds. Greek Epigraphy and Religion, Papers in Memory of Sara B. Aleshire from the Second North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy. Brill: Leiden/Boston: 27-50.

2019. “'King Harvest Has Surely Come': On the Seasonal Festival of the Kalamaia. In A. Gartziou-Tatti and A. Zografou eds. Des dieux et des plantes. Monde végétal et religion en Grèce ancienne (Kernos Suppl.34). Presses Universitaires de Liège: Liège. 127-140.

2018. "A Network of Hearths: Honours, Sacrificial Shares, and 'Traveling Meat'". In J. Blok, F. van der Eijnde, and R. Strootman eds. Feasting and Polis Institutions(Mnemosyne Suppl. 414). Brill: Leiden/Boston. 340-375.

2017. “Sailing to Dodona: On the Naa, the Aktia, and times of consultation of the oracle”. In K. Soueref ed. Δωδώνη, Οι ερωτήσεις των χρησμών, Νέες προσεγγίσεις στα χρηστήρια ελάσματα / Dodona, The Omen’s Questions, New approaches in the oracular tablets. Ioannina. 95-111.

2017. “Meaty Perks: Epichoric and Topological Trends”. In S. Hitch and I. Rutherford eds. Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World.Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. 151-177.

2017² (2015). “Ritual Cycles: Calendars and Festivals”. In E. Eidinow and J. Kindt eds. The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion(2nd edition). University Press: Oxford. 537-550. ISBN 9780198810179.

2017. “At the Table of the Gods? Divine Appetites and Animal Sacrifice". (online).

2016. “The Festival of the Aloulaia and the Association of the Alouliastai: Notes Concerning the New Inscription from Larisa/Marmarini”. Kernos 29: 185-208.

2015. “Rereading the Ritual Tablet from Selinous”. In A. Ianucci, F. Muccioli, and M. Zaccarini eds. La città inquieta, Selinunte tra lex sacra e defixiones (Diadema 3). Mimesis: Sesto San Giovanni. 165-204 + 306.

Collaborative Chapters and Articles

2021. with S. Isager. “Early Ptolemaic Halikarnassos (ca. 280-260 BC) and its Network of Interactions”. In P. Pedersen, B. Poulsen, and J. Lund eds. Karia and the Dodekanese, Cultural interrelations in the south-eastern Aegean c. 500 BC – AD 500 (vol. II). Oxbow Books: Oxford/Philadelphia. 109-124.

2021. with S. Isager and P. Pedersen. “A Pair of Brothers in the Court of Antiochos I: A New Honorific Decree from Halikarnassos”. In P. Brun, L. Capdetrey, and P. Fröhlich eds. L’Asie Mineure au IIIe siècle. Ausonius: Pessac. 213-229.

2020. with S. Isager and P. Pedersen. “A Thesauros for Sarapis and Isis: I.Halikarnassos *290 and the Cult of the Egyptian Gods at Halikarnassos”. In L. Bricault and R. Veymiers eds. Bibliotheca Isiaca IV. Ausonius: Pessac. 75-83.

2019. with V. Pirenne-Delforge, "Two Notes on the Collection of Greek Ritual Norms Looking Back, Looking Forward”, : 103-115 (online).

2018. with S. Isager and P. Pedersen. “An Inscribed Stele Depicting a Horseman Now in the Bodrum Museum”. Philia 4: 26-30.

2017. with V. Pirenne-Delforge. “Codifying 'Sacred Laws' in Ancient Greece”. In D. Jaillard and C. Nihan eds. Writing Laws in Antiquity / L’écriture du droit dans l’Antiquité (BZAR 19). Harrasowitz: Wiesbaden: 141-157.

2017. with S. Isager and P. Pedersen. “Priestess Athenodote: New Pieces of Evidence for the History and the Cults of Late Hellenistic Halikarnassos, I.Halikarnassos *294 (and *297)”. ZPE 201: 165-186.

2016. with J. Clackson. “Arms and the Boy: On the New Festival Calendar from Arkadia”. Kernos 29: 119-158.

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Research Interests:  Greek and Roman cultural history, early Christianity, and ancient conceptions of the body.