Role
Full Professor of Greek History at the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Salento.
Bio
Flavia Frisone graduated in Classics from the University of Messina and continued her education at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, where she earned a specialization in Archaeology and a PhD in Ancient History. Since 2000, she has been employed at the Department of Cultural Heritage at the University of Salento, where she teaches Greek History and has served as coordinator of the PhD program in Ancient History and Chair of the Degree Program in Cultural Heritage. She collaborates with superintendencies, museums, and scientific institutions on research projects, excavation campaigns, exhibitions, conferences, research events, and cultural dissemination. She also engages in extensive scientific dissemination activities, including orientation initiatives, cultural heritage promotion, and live public engagement, through communications (print, television), and social media.
Her research focuses on ancient Greek history , especially its socio-political and mythical-ritual aspects, mobility and cultural interactions in the ancient Mediterranean, as well as women's history . She is committed to the valorization of cultural heritage through the tools of public history .