Margherita Guglielmina CASSIA
Margherita Cassia is associate Professor of Roman History at Catania University, Department of Humanities.
She is a member of the academic board for the PhD programme in “Heritage and Cultural Production Sciences” at the University of Catania.
Her research, in line with her teaching activities to date, has focused on the following themes:
• characteristics and functions of towns and villages in specific regional areas of Anatolia (Cappadocia, Pontus)
• society, economy and culture in the correspondence of Basil of Caesarea
• the relationship between political history, ethnogeography and family ties in the Augustan Strabo
• slavery and social mobility in Hellenistic-Roman Anatolia
• the cursus publicus in the Constantinian era
• the role of medicine in imperial society and economy
• the relationship between imperial power and the medical profession
• settlement patterns and economic dynamics in insular and Mediterranean contexts (the Maltese archipelago, Sicily)
• the status of women and epigraphic evidence in the imperial era (Egypt, Sicily, Asia Minor)
• education and politics in the East between the 2nd and 4th centuries AD
• university teaching of ancient history
Updated on 20 May 2026
- 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.
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Member of Centro di Archeologia Cretese of University of Catania from 2018.
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Ordinary Member of Società Italiana di Storia della Medicina (S.I.S.M.) from 2019.
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Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Scientific Journal (Class A) Hormos. Research of Ancient History.
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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 16th May 2026
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