Margherita Cassia
Biographic Data
| ID | 9635081 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margherita Cassia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margherita |
| FAMILY NAME | Cassia |
| SIGNATURE | CASSIA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Catania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Né ἰατρίνη né μαῖα
Neither ἰατρίνη nor μαῖα: the «special» knowledge of the iatromaea/ἰατρόμαια Especially in the last thirty years both the ἰατρίναι/medicae and the μαῖαι/obstetrices have received particular attention from scholars both for a more precise framing of these female «professions» within activities that are not exclusively manual but also intellectual, and in order to reconstruct the legal status, the possibilities of social affirmation and the opportu…
A Deformed Child and the ‘Fault’ of his Mother
As Gregory of Tours reports ( De virtutibus sancti Martini 2.24), in Bourges a child, ‘sinfully’ conceived on a Sunday night and born fearfully deformed, was nevertheless cared for by his mother, who refused to kill it, resisted the derision of neighbors and finally entrusted it to a group of beggars. The story of this monstrum – healed by two miracula performed by Saint Martin – allows us to formulate some reflections on socio-cultural (the conn…
I saperi dell’architetto nella propaganda augustea
The Vitruvian De architectura, treatise in ten books dedicated to Augustus, documents the author’s perfect adherence to the ideological contents of the Augustan propaganda – which founded much of its success not only on territorial conquests but also on public buildings – and presents numerous points of contact with some declarations of intents expressed by Strabo in the Prolegomena to his geographical work. Like the geographer, in fact, even the…
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I saperi dell’architetto nella propaganda augustea
The Vitruvian De architectura, treatise in ten books dedicated to Augustus, documents the author’s perfect adherence to the ideological contents of the Augustan propaganda – which founded much of its success not only on territorial conquests but also on public buildings – and presents numerous points of contact with some declarations of intents expressed by Strabo in the Prolegomena to his geographical work. Like the geographer, in fact, even the…
A Deformed Child and the ‘Fault’ of his Mother
As Gregory of Tours reports ( De virtutibus sancti Martini 2.24), in Bourges a child, ‘sinfully’ conceived on a Sunday night and born fearfully deformed, was nevertheless cared for by his mother, who refused to kill it, resisted the derision of neighbors and finally entrusted it to a group of beggars. The story of this monstrum – healed by two miracula performed by Saint Martin – allows us to formulate some reflections on socio-cultural (the conn…
Né ἰατρίνη né μαῖα
Neither ἰατρίνη nor μαῖα: the «special» knowledge of the iatromaea/ἰατρόμαια Especially in the last thirty years both the ἰατρίναι/medicae and the μαῖαι/obstetrices have received particular attention from scholars both for a more precise framing of these female «professions» within activities that are not exclusively manual but also intellectual, and in order to reconstruct the legal status, the possibilities of social affirmation and the opportu…
Art history (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Astronomer (1 work) · Cartography (1 work) · Classical Antiquity Studies (1 work)