Giulia Sissa

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Giulia Sissa (born 16 June 1954) is an Italian classical scholar and historian of philosophy. She is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Classics at UCLA. The majority of her works deal specifically with the role of women in the Ancient Mediterranean.

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Life

Born in Mantua, Italy, Giulia Sissa graduated in Classics from the University of Pavia in 1977 before studying at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, gaining the Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies in 1979 and the Doctorat de IIIe cycle in 1983. She has been a researcher at the Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale  [ fr ] of Collège de France, and at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. She has also been Professor of Classics and head of department at Johns Hopkins University. [1]

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References

  1. Two lectures by Giulia Sissa (UCLA) Archived 2020-02-26 at the Wayback Machine , Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade