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Recupero Porcino on Sidoniana

Eleonora Recupero Porcino contributes an article titled ‘Verso un’edizione digitale delle opere di Sidonio Apollinare: problemi metodologici e prospettive del portale Sidoniana‘ to a special issue of Umanistica Digitale 23 (2026) on pp. 263-75. This special is dedicated to ‘Digital…

Cyprus Conference on Letters by Rulers

Chiara Di Serio and Margot Neger (neger.margot AT ucy.ac.cy) have organised an international conference on ‘Letters and Authority: The Epistolary Communication of Rulers and Religious Leaders in Antiquity and the Middle Ages’. Date: 29-30 May 2026. Venue: University of Cyprus,…

Leach Reviews the Selected Letters

Colin Leach wrote the first review of Joop van Waarden’s Sidonius Apollinaris: Selected Letters on the Classics for All website. ‘The Introduction is of exemplary quality.’ ‘In reading the Letters, I found that there was not even a single instance…

Sirks on Colonate

Boudewijn Sirks, in his recent monograph The Colonate in the Roman Empire, Cambridge: CUP, 2024, on pp. 264-67, devotes a section to ‘The Council of Orange of 441, Sidonius Apollinaris ер. 5.19, and Remigius of Reims’.

Ruiz de Vergara Olmos on Papianilla

Ekaitz Ruiz de Vergara Olmos, Ekaitz has written an article on Terentia, Calpurnia and Papianilla (Ep. 5.16), ‘Epistulae ad uxorem: relaciones matrimoniales en las cartas de Cicerón, Plinio el Joven y Sidonio’, in Ana Martín Minguijón, José Nicolás Saiz López…

Sidonius in Roman Letters

Sidonius’ correspondence is among the odd 8,000 letters contained in the new online AI-powered ‘Roman Letters’ database. ‘Roman Letters grows out of a simple observation in Patrick Wyman’s 2016 USC dissertation, Letters, Mobility, and the Fall of the Roman Empire: the…

Rother on Water Usage

Michael Rother published an article, ‘Continuity, disruption, and transition: Water usage in late antiquity, as described by Sidonius Apollinaris and archaeology’, in Hydrological Sciences Journal 71 (2026), posted online 19 March 2026. go to article ABSTRACT The fifth century in Western…

Deliyannis on Solomon’s Temple

Deborah Deliyannis published the article ‘Gregory of Tours, Solomon’s Temple, and the Seven Wonders: Splendor and Ephemerality’ in VigChr 79 (2025) 535-553. It involves Sidonius and his invention (as far as we can see) of the Temple of Solomon as the…

Van Waarden Reviews Ungvary

Joop van Waarden has written a review of David Ungvary, Converting Verse: The Poetics of Asceticism in Late Roman Gaul (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity), Oxford: Oxford University Press 2024 just published in Vigiliae Christianae. Advance publication on Brill’s website

Wolff on Sounds in Ep. 1.8

Étienne Wolff, ‘Quelques jeux sur les sons et les mots passés inaperçus: Mart. II 65; Sidon. epist. I 8; Anth. Lat. 190 R.’, Sileno 51 (2025) 195-208. See summary