Carmina Romana

In memoriam Bengt E. Thomasson
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-3-11-226778-3
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Deutsch, Italienisch, 528 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm

Reihe: Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum

Versified inscriptions from the city of Rome date from the Republican period through to late antiquity. An edition of the city of Rome meeting modern standards has yet to be produced. The contributions provide individual analyses of linguistic and content-related aspects of the texts and media relating to verse inscriptions from the city of Rome. In addition, some contributions address methodological issues such as social groups or modes of presentation, or that explore the prospects of digital resources, particularly for a city characterised by multiculturalism and multilingualism such as Rome. Not unlike the rest of the empire, funerary inscriptions in verse dominated in Rome; since Late Antiquity, however, other types of text have evidently become increasingly popular. In the Republic and Late Antiquity, such inscribed poems, with or without a prose framework, were more of an elite phenomenon, whereas epigrams in the Imperial period were a popular text type for broad sections of the population. In addition to analysing various aspects of textual developments over the centuries in Rome, the volume offers an edition of 40 from Rome, which constitute a small part of the material Bengt E. Thomasson (1926–2025) had prepared in anticipation of a planned CIL volume.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Horster, Marietta

Henriksén, Christer

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie: Theorie und Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Über Autor(innen)

Marietta Horster , Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany;  Christer Henriksén , Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.