Author: JvW

The Companion Continued

To mark the first anniversary of the publication of the Companion, as of March 2021, the website is enriched with a Companion Continued section. The editors envisage a space for new ideas and improvements for the years to come. There will be separate sections for the various chapters, which can contain materials provided by their authors as well as by others. If you have something to add, feel free to write to the editors.

We begin with posts by Gavin Kelly concerning chapters Chapters 3 and 15. For chapter 3, Dating, he writes ‘An Edition of the Paratexts of Sidonius’ Poems’; for chapter 15, Prose Rhythm, he comes with ‘Sidonius’ Prose Rhythm: A Supplement’.

Addenda et corrigenda are the next item, and there is a menu point crosslinking to general information about the Companion and its reception in the press.

The First Year of the Companion

In its first year, since March 2020, the Sidonius Companion has even made it to scholars’ kitchen tables (picture with kind permission of Veronika Egetenmeyr).

Edinburgh University Press released two free chapters:’The Manuscript Tradition of Sidonius’ and ‘Sidonius Reception: Late 19th-21st Centuries’ (advertised on Twitter and elsewhere)

They also offer a 40% discount on purchasing the Companion from their website until the end of April 2021 (discount code CLASS40).

Now the Sidonius website comes up with a brand-new The Companion Continued section.

15 April: Van Waarden on Performance

Joop van Waarden is to give a lecture at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa on performance aspects of the Panegyric of Anthemius.

Title: ‘A Ceremony Embodied: Experiencing Anthemius’ Panegyric’

Date and time: Thursday 15 April, 16:00-18:00 CEST

Mode: distance. Everybody is welcome. In order to participate, send an email requesting to be included in the Teams group to Fabrizio Oppedisano: fabrizio.oppedisano@sns.it.

Ehrhardt on Places of Worship

Christelle Ehrhardt got her doctorate in archaeology and prehistory at Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III with ‘Bâtir une église, fonder une mémoire, asseoir une autorité: lieux de culte et représentations du passé dans les campagnes des anciens diocèses de Bordeaux, Bazas et Agen au premier Moyen Âge (IVe-XIe siècle)’. Sidonius figures on pp. 102-22 with the private chapel of the Burgus of Pontius Leontius in particular.

Read it here

Van Waarden Commentary Selected Letters

Joop van Waarden got a contract with Cambridge University Press for writing a Sidonius Apollinaris: Selected Letters commentary in the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series (‘Green and Yellow’), to be ready by September 2024.

The provisional table of contents is:
LETTER – SUBJECT MATTER
1.1 Correspondence: structure and style
1.5 Rome: journey, literary landscape
1.7 Rome: Arvandus, treason or adjustment
1.9 Rome: court, panegyric
1.10 Rome: city prefect
2.2 Villa: invitation, Avitacum, architecture, Pliny
2.8 Women: death of Philomathia, epitaph
2.10 Church: building, ekphrasis, poem
3.9 Correspondence: recommendation, Riothamus
3.12 Family: grandfather, epitaph
4.19 Correspondence: shortest letter
4.20 Barbarians: marriage Sigismer
5.5 Barbarians and Roman culture: Syagrius mastering Burgundian
5.16 Family: career prospectives (to his wife)
7.1 War and church: to Mamertus
7.7 War and politics: demise of Clermont
7.17 Asceticism: political powerplay, abbot Abraham, Lérins
7.18 Correspondence: structure
8.1 Correspondence: structure
8.3 Apollonius of Tyana, court, exile
8.15 Correspondence: refusal to write history, promise of hagiography
9.16 Correspondence: structure, poetry

Don’t Miss “Visigoths, Kings of Toulouse”

Still online and not to be missed, the exposition in Musée Saint-Raymond, Toulouse, on the occasion of the settlement of the Visigoths in Toulouse, 1600 years ago.

In a 360◦ virtual visit, a unique collection of the most important Visigothic finds is on display. Here goes to the exhibition.

An important catalogue of the exposition is on sale in the (virtual) museum shop (€ 35).