Carmina Romana

In memoriam Bengt E. Thomasson

Marietta Horster, Christer Henriksén

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Edition: 1
• Year: 2026
• Topic: History
• Print ISBN:
  9783112267783
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• eBook ISBN:
  9783112267790
• Index: History

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 carmina from Rome, which constitute a small part of the material Bengt E. Thomasson (1926–2025) had prepared in anticipation of a planned CIL volume.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Part 1 Bengt E. Thomasson – Historian, Epigraphist, Folkbildare
• Bengt E. Thomasson and the Carmina Latina of the City of Rome: patientia, indulgentia et magnus amor causae
• A Personal Note in memoriam Bengt E. Thomasson
• Bengt E. Thomassons Arbeiten auf Schwedisch: eine kleine Einsicht und kurze Übersicht
• Bengt E. Thomasson and Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum vol. XVIII
• Carmina Latina Epigraphica in museo Capitolino servata edenda curavit Christer Henriksén
• Part 2 Perspectives on Carmina Epigraphica Romana
• In Praise of a Learned Physician (IGUR III 1163)
• Qualche considerazione sull’epitaffio metrico di Maria Tulliana, nipote del retore Mario Vittorino
• Las inscripciones en verso conservadas en la basílica de los Santi Quattro Coronati. Apuntes sobre una inscripción inobservada en el claustro
• Composer avec Catulle: réexamen de l’épitaphe d’Egnatuleia Urbana (CLE 963)
• Poesia per pochi, poesia per tutti: un approccio metodologico e quantitativo allo status sociale e giuridico nei carmina di Roma
• Sulla strada per Roma: carmina della Via Tiburtina
• AE 1928, 73: A CLE by the Poet Sulpicia?
• Crocevia di tradizioni quattrocentesche nel carmen epigrafico per Narsete (CIL VI 1199)
• Iscrizioni metriche e codifica digitale
• CLE 1355: pariter tumulati et pariter memorati
• Ein Grabgedicht für Vincenzo Magrè in den Kirchen San Lorenzo in Lucina in Rom und Santa Corona in Vicenza
• Margarita, Pearl of Rome: Voice and Affection in CIL VI 29896
• Lightening the Way to God: Female Spiritual Guidance in ICUR IV 12417
• Musica per pochi intimi: armonie epigrafiche al chiuso dei colombari urbani
• A Deceased Husband and his Wife in Conversation on a Funerary Altar from Imperial Rome: Notes on CIL VI 12652/IGUR III 1250
• Scriptura en un carmen romano (CLE 1431): consideraciones sobre el uso del término en un contexto epigráfico
• Language, Literature and Memory in the Bilingual carmen epigraphicum of Aelia Sabina and her Daughter (CLE 442 = IGUR III 1147)
• Memorie di una famiglia: il carme sepolcrale della cantrix Pollia Saturnina e dei suoi figli (CIL VI 10131= CLE 1282 = ILS 5264)
• Doctus/-a nei carmina sepulcralia di Roma. Una riflessione a partire da CLE 403 (CIL VI 9437)
• Where the Nightingale Sings … for Cocceia Nice: Transmission and Interpretation of CIL VI 9118
• Anicius Probus im Schatten seiner Brüder. Zu Kontext und Bedeutung von CLE 1348 A–B
• Vertitur in florem: Le Metamorfosi di Ovidio, AE 2000, 221 e la poesia su pietra
• Index