Roberto Alciati reviews the Companion in Annali di storia dell’esegesi 39 (2022) 485-87.
‘… un imponente volume di più di ottocento pagine e ventiquattro contributi, molti dei quali destinati a diventare testi di riferimento per la ricerca sidoniana, e più in generale per la storia della Gallia tardoantica.’
The latest of Filomena Giannotti is ‘Maxumam solitudinem appello: The Presence of Tacitus in Sidonius Apollinaris’, Pan 11 n.s. (2022) 67-77.
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A question intriguing as ever, addressed anew by John Collis, ‘Where did Sidonius Apollinaris live?’, in Martin Henig a.o., Villas, Sanctuaries and Settlement in the Romano-British Countryside: New Perspectives and Controversies.
Upcoming January 2023. Announced here.
Luciana Furbetta contributed ‘Les Métamorphoses (et pas seulement) d’Ovide dans les vers et les lettres de Sidoine Apollinaire: quelques sondages’ to Hélène Vial (ed.), La poésie augustéenne et la rhétorique, Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2022, 369-87.
ToC in Academia
Roman Continuity and Discontinuity in the Vandal Kingdom is the title of a two-day conference at the University of Hamburg, 7-8 December.
Marzia Fiorentini (University of St. Andrews) speaks on ‘Africa calling: Roman emperors against the Vandalic tyrant in Sidonius Apollinaris’.
Programme here
For enthusiasts of military history, just out Federico Canaccini, Il medioevo in 21 battaglie (Laterza). Chapter 1 deals with the Battle of the Catalaunian Fields: ‘Un’ultima vittoria prima della fine. Campi Cataláunici, 451’.
Stefania Santelia discusses Sidonius’ description of Pontius Leontius’ Burgus villa: ‘”Est locus …”: Verbindung di realtà, mito ed elogio nella descrizione di Burgus (Sidon. Apoll. carm. 22,101-220a)’, in: Borgna, Alice, and Maurizio Lana, Epistulae a familiaribus. Per Raffaella Tabacco, Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2022, 475-88.
Stefania Santelia has written an article for a general audience on language and identity: ‘Barbarica verba: riflessioni sulla lingua come elemento di identità’, Salternum 26 (no 48-49) (2022) 55-59.
Lena Wahlgren-Smith (Southampton) published a review of the Companion in Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture 8,2 (2022) 173-84, online here.
‘With the exception of material culture, this rich volume appears to cover almost every aspect of Sidonius’ life and oeuvre that a student of the period might look for. It not only represents an enormous advance in the understanding of this author, but also suggests ways in which other authors, in this and other periods, might profitably be approached. It will add greatly to the field of Sidonius studies and doubtless stimulate further exploration of the author, his genres, and his time.’
Just out: Veronika Egetenmeyr, Die Konstruktion der ‘Anderen’. Barbarenbilder in den Briefen des Sidonius Apollinaris, Philippika 165, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2022.
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