Roman Empress Ulpia Severina

Margherita Cassia is associate professor of Roman History at the Department of Humanities, University of Catania. Her research interests comprise the condition of women in the imperial age (Egypt, Sicily, Asia Minor); the city-country relationship in Cappadocia, Pontus, Malta and Sicily; society, economy, and culture in the Cappadocian Fathers; political history, ethnogeography, and family ties in Strabo’s Geography; the role of medicine in the Roman-imperial age; imperial power and the medical profession; and university teaching of ancient history. Her publications include: Cappadocia romana. Strutture urbane e strutture agrarie alla periferia dell’Impero (2004), La piaga e la cura. Poveri e ammalati, medici e monaci nell’Anatolia rurale tardoantica (2009), Andromaco di Creta. Medicina e potere nella Roma neroniana (2012), Fra biografia e cronografia. Storici cappadoci nell’età dei Costantinidi (2014), Marcello di Side. Gli imperatori adottivi e il potere della medicina (2016), Roma e la sua storia. Dalla città all’Impero (2019).

• 1 Literary Sources.- 1 Aurelian’s Anonymous Uxor.- 2 Ulpius Crinitus.- Bibliography.- 2 Numismatic Sources.- 1 The Venèra Hoard.- 2 The interregnum between Aurelian and Tacitus.- Bibliography.- 3 The Epigraphic Sources.- 1 The Inscriptions of Ulpia Severina, Coniux Aureliani.- 2 The Titles of Σεπτιμία Ζηνοβία Σεβαστή.- Bibliography.- Concluding Remarks.