CALL FOR PAPERS
Lector, quas patieris hic salebras! The Stumbling Texts (and Stumbling Readers) of Late Latin Poetry
International Conference and Workshop, Basel, 30th September – 2nd October 2021
Confirmed speakers include L. Furbetta, J. Hernández Lobato, S. McGill, A. Pelttari, C. Schindler, A. Stoehr-Monjou
Organisation: a.staehle@unibas.ch and markus.kersten@unibas.ch
Click here to download the invitation
Sigrid Mratschek is to write the first German translation of Sidonius’ Poems (provisional title: Sidonius Apollinaris, Panegyrici und carmina , lateinisch – deutsch, Sammlung Tusculum: de Gruyter) with an introduction, notes, a research essay and a selected bibliography.
Out in first view: Alison John, ‘Learning Greek in Late Antique Gaul’, Classical Quarterly 11.02.2021.
For his ‘Ad librum’, physician, botanist and poet Euricius Cordus (Heinrich Ritze, 1486 Hessen-1535 Bremen) was inspired by Sidonius’ famous envoi ‘Propempticon ad libellum’ (Carm. 24), up to its Phalaecian hendecasyllables, providing it with overtones of Catullus and Martial:
Ad librum
Non praeceps adeo ruas, libelle,
quin tuum prius audias parentem,
quae mandata tibi det exeunti.
Omnes quotquot ubique litteratos
cultoresque novem vides sororum,
meo nomine plurimum saluta.
Et si dignus eis videbor, ut me
antiquae numero sodalitatis,
extremum licet, adnotent, precare.
Dehinc ut rhinocerotas atque barros,
ronchos, auriculas ciconiasque
unius facias pili memento.
Demum quam potes eminus proculque
declines, fugias, abomineris
tectos tetrico hypocritas cucullo
rugosamque senum severitatem
et tantum placitos sibi sophastros,
invisum Latiis genus camenis.
Hoc est quod volui, osculare patrem
aeternumque vale, miselle fili.
See also the Receptions page Germany
“… And Ravenna – Ravenna has mosaics, so very many mosaics. Once seen, never forgotten.”
Michael Kulikowski reviews Judith Herrin’s Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe in The Times Literary Supplement of 12 February 2021.
Fabio Gasti has published an acclaimed overview of later Latin literature: La letteratura tardolatina: un profilo storico (secoli III-VII d.C.), Studi superiori 1197, Rome: Carocci, 2020.
| catalogue | review by Dennis Trout BMCR 2021.02.21
Judith Hindermann and Marco Onorato have contributed to the new volume Luciana Furbetta and Céline Urlacher-Becht (eds), Les “lieux” de l’épigramme tardive: vers un élargissement du genre, RET Supplement 8, 2020, with essays on Sidonius’ epigrams.
Hindermann, ‘La lettre comme lieu de publication des épigrammes: les épigrammes dans les épîtres de Sidoine Apollinaire et leur modèle Pline le Jeune’, 75-96
Onorato, ‘Presenza dell’epigramma greco e ibridismo programmatico nel carme 15 di Sidonio Apollinare’, 157-88.
See the Bibliography for 2020 and the ToC of the entire volume on the THAT/RET webpage.
On Friday 12 March, Giulia Marolla will defend her PhD thesis ‘Sidonius Apollinaris, Letters Book 5 (Epp. 1-10): Text, Translation, and Commentary’ at the University of San Marino. Supervisor: Prof. Gavin Kelly (Edinburgh).
A recent Bachelor thesis of the University of Lund, Erik Nilsson, Contra barbaros et haereticos, is an indication of where budding talent in the field is going and, particularly in its cutting-edge bibliography, how the Sidonius Companion has started being trendsetting.
On 3 May (N.B. date has changed) at 18 h. Filomena Giannotti (Siena) and Simona Corso (Roma Tre) are due to discuss Sidonius’ Ep. 3.12 in the third series of Marco Formisano‘s Titubanti testi: Binomio di lettura.
Download the complete season (8 February – 21 June) here.
