EVIDENZE EPIGRAFICHE DI PROCESSI TESTUALI E INTERAZIONI CULTURALI. NOTE IN MARGINE ALLE DIDASCALIE ROMANE (IGUR I, 215-234)

A group of marble fragments from the city of Rome (IGUR i, 215-234) pre- serves tituli scaenici that trace the trajectory of Greek theatre through references to the Athenian ago- nes and the dramatic contests of Rhodes. Although the surviving records pertain to 5th- and 4th-cen- tury BC theatre, they appear to derive from broader catalogues, originally inscribed on large marble slabs between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD and likely displayed in the Campus Martius, in the city’s theatre district. Despite the extensive mutilation and highly fragmentary condition of the stones, these theatrical catalogues from the Urbs represent significant evidence for pursuing two main lines of inquiry. The first concerns the textual structure of the dramatic didascaliae, highlighting the influence of a catalogic-literary tradition and subsequent processes of adaptation and reworking. The second extends to the broader cultural, social, and political context, exploring the interconnections among Rome, Athens, and Rhodes, and illustrating how such convergences shaped the monumental rearrangement of the history of Greek theatre in the early Imperial period.