This is a brief summary of Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.4.13, Leondard Rutgers’ review of:
- A. Donati, Epigrafia romana. La communicazione nell’antichità (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2002), ISBN: 8815086366.
Rutgers sums up his review as follows:
... this is a very short introduction to Roman epigraphy. Easy to read and with inscriptional examples that are well chosen, there can be little doubt that this book accomplishes its purpose well, namely to elicit interest in epigraphy on the part of readers who are unfamiliar with either the nature or the importance of this particular field of scholarly research. Readers interested in the more technical aspects of the epigrapher’s craft will need to supplement this introduction with other books. Yet readers interested in the question of why epigraphy is important in the first place will do well to read this book. It will most definitely give them a taste for more.2
