Albio Cesare Cassio - Biography#

Albio Cesare CASSIO is Emeritus Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Rome ""La Sapienza", where he served as Full Professor of Classical Philology, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità, from Nov. 1997 to Oct. 2017. Previous academic positions: from Nov. 1974 to Oct. 1977, University Assistant, Istituto di Filologia Classica, University of Rome, "La Sapienza"; from Nov. 1977 to Oct. 1980, Associate Professor of History of the Greek Language, Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples; from Nov. 1980 to Oct. 1981, Full Professor of Classical Philology, Salerno; from Nov. 1981 to Oct. 1997, Full Professor of History of the Greek Language, Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples; from Nov. 1973 to Oct. 1977: University Assistant, Istituto di Filologia Classica, University of Rome, "La Sapienza".

After a period of work on Aristophanes, culminating in a book on the Peace (Commedia e Partecipazione, Naples 1985), Cassio has concentrated on the study of the Greek language and its dialects in an Indo-European perspective, publishing a long series of articles in Italian and foreign journals, and organizing conferences on these subjects (Katà Diálekton. Atti del III Colloquio Internazionale di Dialettologia Greca, Naples 1997). He has especially studied the most recent phases of the Homeric language and the dialects of the Greek colonies in Southern Italy and Sicily (The Language of Doric Comedy in A. Willi (ed.), The Language of Greek Comedy, Oxford 2002). He has often been invited to give talks at international conferences, as well as lectures and series of lectures in Italy and abroad, e. g. Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Venice Ca' Foscari, Harvard University, Oxford University, Cambridge University (Gray Lectures, 2006), University of California at Los Angeles(2016), Cornell University (2018) and is the editor of a recent book on the history of the Greek literary languages, of which he has also written four chapters (Storia delle lingue letterarie greche, 2nd edition, Milan 2016).

In 2019 Cassio was presented with a Festschrift:

E. Passa - O. Tribulato (eds.) The Paths of Greek. Literature, Linguistics and Epigraphy Studies in Honour of Albio Cesare Cassio, "Trends in Classics", Supplementary Volume 85, Berlin /Boston (Walter de Gruyter) 2019.