Mario Segre e l'epigrafia romana

Although Mario Segre devoted much of his career to studying inscriptions related to the history of Greek civilization, some of his contributions dealt with Greek-speaking Mediterranean communities under Roman rule. Among these, a dossier of little-known or completely unpublished inscriptions that Segre brought to the scholarly community’s attention tells of his formation as a field epigraphist. Several documents are also relevant for understanding the events that characterized Rome’s expansion in the eastern Mediterranean and its relations with Greek cities between the end of the Republic and the early Empire. In all these cases, it is possible to notice Segre’s acumen, methodological rigor, and familiarity with the epigraphic cultures of the Aegean region, Asia Minor, and Egypt.