Prof. Helena Fracchia

Department of History and Classics

University of Alberta, Canada

Full Professor

Email: [email protected]

Expertise & Research Interests

Greek, Pre-Roman and Roman Art and Archaeology

Fields of Graduate Supervision

Classical Archaeology

Pre-Roman and Roman Italy

Magna Graecia

Qualifications

1979  Ph.D., Classical Archaeology, University of California, USA

1971  M.A., Classical Archaeology, University of California, USA

1969  B.Sc., Ancient Greek, University of California, USA

Publications (Selected)

Books:

1. M. Gualtieri and H. Fracchia, La villa di Masseria Ciccotti e il periodo romana nella Basilicata orientale, for Centre Jean Berard and L'Ecole Française de Rome
2. 2015 M. Gualtieri, H. Fracchia, S. Ferrari, (eds) La villa di Ossaia e la Val di Chiana nel contesto di Etruria romana for Quasar, Series on Etruria Romana
3. 2001 Gualtieri and Fracchia. Roccagloriosa II: Il territorio e la regione dall' terzo secolo a.C. al tardo antico, Ecole Francaise de Rome/Centre Jean Berard Naples, vol. 16 in the series Bibliotheque de l'Institut Francaise du Naples, 250 pp.
4. 1993 Second author in M. Gualtieri ed., Fourth Century B.C. Magna Graecia: A Case Study from Western Lucania, chaps. "The Votive Deposit pp. 108-140, "The Regional Land­scape" pp.2­27-254, "The Ceramic Industry" pp. 255-281, in Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology (Goteborg, Sweden), vol. 114, 394 pp.
5. 1990 Second author and co-editor with M. Gualtieri, Roccagloriosa I: L'Abitato, Scavo e Ricognizione (1976-1986), Ecole Francaise de Rome/Centre Jean Berard Naples, vol. 8 in the series Bibliotheque de l'Institut Francais du Naples, 500 pp. (published with a grant from the French Government, Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Articles/Contributions to Volumes:

1. 2015 H. Fracchia 'Acerenza and the Upper Bradano Valley in the 2nd and 3rd c. AD' in Lucania Romana , ed. A. Mastrocinque (Archeologia di Bretschneider) Roma
2. 2015 H. Fracchia, 'The Placement of Cult at Roccagloriosa: 3rd -1st c. BC' in BICS Roman Impact on Italic Cult Places and Religion, eds. T. Stek and G.J: Burgers..
3. 2015 M. Gualtieri and H. Fracchia 'Archeologia di un culto 'familiare': il complesso A di Roccagloriosa' in Volume del Istituto di ricerche e documentazione sugli antichi umbri in the series Archeologia (Bretschneider) Roma.
4. 2015 H. Fracchia and M. Gualtieri, 'Dal Territorio di Roccagloriosa al Ager Buxentinus' in "Expropriations et confiscations dans le monde romain" Coll. Ecole Francais de Rome
5. 2014 H. Fracchia, 'Rural Agglomerations in the Upper Bradano Valley' in Beyond Vagnari, ed. A. Small, Munera 38, 193-201
6. 2012 H. Fracchia, T. Mattioli, 'Recent Research in the Upper Bradano Valley': the vici of the 2nd c. AD' in Mouseion 10 (2010), 169-192
7. 2012 H. Fracchia, 'Settlement, Survey and Land Use' Chapter8 in Blackwell's Companion to Roman Republican Archaeology (ed. J. De Rose Evans).
8. 2012 H. Fracchia, 'Changing Contexts and Intent: The Mourning Niobe Motif from Lucania to Daunia' in GÖSTA ENBOM MONOGRAPH SERIES II, Royal Glyptothek/The National Museum of Denmark, 69-80
9. 2011 H. Fracchia and M. Gualtieri 'The countryside of Regio II and Regio III (300 B.C. - AD 14)' in Local Cultues of South Italy and Sicily in the Late Republican Period: Between Hellenism and Rome (ed. F. Colivicchi) Supplement to the Journal of Roman Archaeology, 11-29
10. 2011 H. Fracchia, 'Family and Community: Self Representation in a Lucanian Chamber Tomb' in Communicating Identity in Italic Iron Age Cultures (eds. M. Gleba and H. Horsnaes), Oxford, 90-98
11. 2010 H. Fracchia, M. Gualtieri, S. Ferrari 'La Villa Romana di Ossaia nel suo contesto' in Amoenitas I, 145-176
12. 2010 H. Fracchia and M. Gualtieri, 'The Artisan Tradition at Roccagloriosa: A Case Study' in L'Artigianto nel Mondo Antico, Centre Jean Berard (Napoli) e l'Ecole Française de Rome Antiquite , 100-116

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