Lucia Cecchet is Senior Lecturer in Greek History in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Milan. Her research focuses on poverty in the Greek world, Greek citizenship from the classical to the imperial period, speech performance in antiquity, and the impact of war on ancient communities. She is the author of Poverty in Athenian Public Discourse (2015) and co-editor of Citizens in the Graeco-Roman World (2017), The Ancient War’s Impact on the Home Front (2019) and Poverty in Ancient Greece and Rome (2023). She is PI and national coordinator of the PRIN project Performing Power: Political Communication, Consensus and Audience in the Ancient Cities. Her publications include: Poverty in Athenian Public Discourse, Historia Einzelschriften 239. Stuttgart: Steiner 2015; Citizens in the Graeco-Roman World. Aspects of Citizenship from the Archaic period to AD 212 (con A. Busetto). Leiden: Brill 2017; The Ancient War’s Impact on the Home Front (con Ch. Degelmann, M. Patzelt). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars 2019; Poverty in Ancient Greece and Rome (con F. Carlà-Uhink, C. Machado). London: Routledge 2023.
