The University of Zürich has developed a new version of its Corpus Corporum repository of late Latin literature based on Migne’s Patrologia latina. This also comprises a fully clickable version of Sidonius’ poetry and letters.
Month: November 2021
On Anthemius’ Side
A straightforwardly partisan portrait of Anthemius from the Byzantinist Henry Hopwood-Phillips: ‘Anthemius, the Betrayed Byzantine Saviour of the West’, blogpost The Byzantine Ambassador, 16 September 2021.
Giannotti Reviews Mascoli
In BSL 51,2, July-December 2021, pp. 719-21, Filomena Giannotti reviews Patrizia Mascoli’s recent Italian translation of Sidonius’ correspondence:
- ‘Patrizia Mascoli … corona … una militanza più che ventennale su questo significativo letterato’
- ‘uno strumento di sicura utilità’
- ‘in un sottile ed equilibrato processo di mediazione fra il riprodurre quanto possibile della tessitura di partenza, e mantenere … una lingua d’arrivo sufficientemente lineare, la sua prima traduzione italiana integrale di Sidonio consegue il risultato di rendere finalmente leggibile … uno degli autori più lambiccati e complessi della letteratura latina.’
The same issue of BSL also contains an account of the Siena conference Metamorfosi del classico in età romanobarbarica (pp. 632-7).
Müller on Occasional Poetry
Gernot Michael Müller is to fill one of the slots of the Bonn online lecture series ‘The Auspicious Occasion’ with:
‘Gelegenheiten zur Selbstbehauptung – Sidonius Apollinaris’ Carmina minora und die Funktion lateinischer Gelegenheitsdichtung am Übergang von der Spätantike zum Frühmittelalter’.
Date: 6 December. Programme with Zoom link here.
Bari-Durham Writing Letters
On 25 and 26 November, an international colloquium will be held of early career researchers in ancient epistolography, organised by the Universities of Bari and Durham: ‘Writing Letters in the Ancient World: Fictional and Real Letters from the First Century BC to the Fifth Century AD’.
Keynote speakers: Roy Gibson and Ruth Morello.
Giulia Marolla is to speak on ‘Sidonius, Letters Book 5: Between Literary Fiction and Autobiography’.
Organising committee: Laura Losito, Giulia Marolla and Enrico Simonetti.
Download programme here. If you wish to attend, please contact Laura Losito (Durham).
Liccardo on the Heruli
Salvatore Liccardo made a blogpost ‘Identical Strangers: The History of the Heruli Between the 3rd and the 5th Century’, ÖAW 12 October 2021. It is part of the project Visualizing Semantic Landscapes in Early Medieval Europe (MMP), coordinated by Walter Pohl and Veronika Wieser.
To the passage mentioned by the author (Carm. 34.31 in Ep. 8.9.6 to Lampridius: hic glaucis Herulus genis vagatur) one can add Carm. 7.235-6 vincitur illic / cursu Herulus, Chunus iaculis Francusque natatu.