EPIGRAFIA SACRA GRECA IN VERSI DI ETÀ IMPERIALE IN ITALIA: PRIME PROSPEZIONI

Abstract

The paper deals with some Greek metrical imperial age inscriptions related to the sacred, with a specific
focus on the communication modes, the literary aspects and the strategies aimed at conveying the content to
potential readers. After discussing some pagan votive inscriptions that show a semantic function of their layout
(EDR 100041, Capua, 2nd c.; EDR 173505, Catania 3rd-4th c.; IGUR 1638; IGUR 149, 2nd-3rd c.; IGUR
102a-b), paper briefly come back on the crucial stylistic choices problem in relation to the readability of
metrical inscriptions. The last section discusses the relationship between paideia and religious faith, offering
a new assessment of the inscription of the physician Dioskoros (EDR 073767, Milan 4th c.).