Helena Fracchia, Ph.D. - Directory@UAlberta.ca

Contact

Faculty of Arts - History, Classics, & Religion Dept

Email: hfracchi@ualberta.ca

Overview

Research

Pre Roman and Roman Italy, cultural landscapes, field survey, geophtsical applications in archaeology.. Indigenous peoples of ancient Italy, religion, settlement development and urbanisation.

Courses

CLASS 299 - Topics in the Ancient World

Winter Term 2025

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Scholarly Activities

Research - 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. (pub¬lished with a grant from the French Government, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

First volume of final site publication of Roccagloriosa

Research - 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 Land¬scape" pp.2¬27-254, "The Ceramic Indus¬try" pp. 255-281, in Studies in Medi¬terra¬nean Arch¬ae¬ology (Gote¬borg, Sweden), vol. 114, 394 pp.

English synthesis of the site at Roccagloriosa

Research - 2001 M. Gualtieri and H. 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 Bibliotheq¬ue de l'Institut Francaise du Naples, 250 pp.

Second volume of the final publication of the Roccagloriosa site in Western Lucania

Research - 2008 H .Fracchia, La villa di Ossia e il territorio di Cortona nell’epoca romana2 (Sracusa) 130 pp. Translation and updated edition of the English version, see 2007

villa at Ossaia and the museum rooms dedicated to the sit

Research - 2014 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

Final site publblication for the site at Ossaia (6th c. BC-6th c AD)

Featured Publications

2017 H. Fracchia, M. Gualtieri, ‘Cinquant’anni di ricognizione alla ricerca di abitati antichi in Lucania’ La lucanie tra deux mare, ed. Cazanove (Paris)

Fracchia and Gualtieri

Proceedings from the Sorbonne Conferences on Western Lucania. 2018 January;

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..

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2016 January;

2016 H. Fracchia ‘Acerenza and the Upper Bradano Valley in the 2nd and 3rd c. AD’ in Lucania Romana , ed. A. Mastrocinque (BAR) Roma

Helena Fracchia

BAR. 2016 January;

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

Fracchia and Gualtieri

MEFRA. 2015 January;

2016 H. Fracchia ‘ Le testimonianze cultuale più antiche da Roccagloriosa’ in Da Enotria a Lucania eds. F. La Torre and F. Mollo, Università di Messina, forthcoming.

Fracchia and Gualtieri

Proceedings of the conference on the Gulf of Policastro.

2016 H. Fracchia, S. Ferrari, ‘Observations of the 3rd -5th century CE in the Eastern ValdiChiana’ in Accademia Etrusca 239-251

Fracchia and Ferrri

Proceedings of the Academia Etrusca.

2016 M. Gualtieri and H. Fracchia, ‘Dal Territorio di Roccagloriosa all’Ager Buxentinus’ in Raccontare l’archeologia, eds. S. Pallecchi, et. al, Università di Genova.

Fracchia and Gualtieri

Proceedings of a Conference on disseminating archaeology, Univ. of Genova.