“… 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.
Author: JvW
Gasti La letteratura tardolatina
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
Hindermann and Onorato on Epigrams
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.
Giulia Marolla Defends Thesis
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).
Budding and Trendsetting
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.
Ep. 3.12 in Titubanti testi
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.
Sidonius at Leeds IMC
At this year’s virtual Leeds International Medieval Congress, Sidonius will be addressed by Madeleine St. Marie, ‘A Bishop in Unstable Times: Conflict in the Letters of Sidonius Apollinaris’, and Richard Rush, ‘When the Rhône Boils: Literary Uses of Hot Summer Weather in Sidonius Apollinaris’s Epistula 2.2 and the Vita Apollinaris‘.
For details, see the Events post on this website.
Gallia docta? Conference
From 17-20 March, Veronika Egetenmeyr and Tabea Meurer will be organizing the online conference ‘Gallia docta? Learning and its limitations in late antique Gaul / Gallia docta? Bildung (begrenzen) im spätantiken Gallien’ at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg, Greifswald. Webpage here.
The opening keynote speech ‘Sidonius’ kunstsinnige Muse’ will be given by Sigrid Mratschek. It can be freely accessed here.
Other speakers include Christine Delaplace, Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser, Ulrich Eigler, Nikolas Hächler, Hendrik Hess, Angela Kinney, Alison John, Gernot Müller, Maik Patzelt, Raphael Schwitter, Danuta Shanzer, Christian Stadermann, Peter Van Nuffelen, Joop van Waarden, and Willum Westenholz.
A Rich Sidonius Year 2020
2020 has been a year rich in Sidonius publications, second only to 2014: 81 individual pieces across articles, contributions to collective volumes (Lo specchio del modello, Leisure and the Muses, and the Companion), and related output. For comparison the distribution over the past decade (583 items in all):
Sidonius in the Pléiade
In the new Anthologie bilingue de la poésie latine in the Pléiade series, Sidonius is represented with two fragments of the Panegyric to Avitus (Carm. 7, lines 20-50 and 118-55), the famous quip on the Burgundians (Carm. 12), and the classic Envoi (Carm. 24), in a translation by René Martin.