Philippe Jamet (–> Wikipedia), in his novel Le coucher du Tibre (Paris: Cylibris, 2000), imagines that Majorian wrote a visionary memoir, addressed to Sidonius Apollinaris and intended to perpetuate Rome’s grandeur in a new world.
(Thanks go to Prof. Étienne Wolff for signalling this.)
The Saint-Raymond museum in Toulouse this year presents an exposition “Wisigoths: Rois de Toulouse“.
It is accompanied by a virtual 360° visit online.
The museum has also published a catalogue: Laure Barthet and Claudine Jacquet (eds), Wisigoths: Rois de Toulouse, where, on pp. 116-20 Jean-Marie Pailler, Jean-Luc Boudartchouk and Patrice Montzamir discuss Sidonius and his (or his son’s?) epitaph in both its versions.
Next Monday, 30 November, St Andrew’s Day, Edinburgh University Press will be running their 24 hour 50% sale (0:00 am – 11:59 pm). Ever wanted to buy the Companion? This is your chance. At half price.
Filomena Giannotti has published ‘Litteras nosse: l’ep. 8, 2 di Sidonio Apollinare e l’importanza della cultura sotto i barbari’ in Pan. Rivista di Filologia Latina.
For details, see Bibliography, tab 2020
Impossible for a Roman to compose a poem with Germanic spoken around. Stefania Santelia compares ‘De conviviis barbaris’ from the Anthologia Latina with Sidon. Carm. 12 and Ennod. Epigr. 2.67.
See bibliography, tab 2020.
Judith Herrin devotes a brief chapter to Sidonius in her new book Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe (p. 72-76).
The first Sidonius publication of 2021 is out: Veronika Egetenmeyr, ‘Sidonius Apollinaris’s Use of the Term Barbarus: An Introduction’, in: Matthias Friedrich and James M. Harland (eds), Interrogating the ‘Germanic’: A Category and its Use in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, Supplement to Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 123, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020, 145-66.
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In a new article, ‘The Poet and the Light’, Marco Onorato develops two different applications of Prudentius’ ekphrasis of light and colour in the Temple of Wisdom in Psychomachia 823-887 in Sidonius’ poems, a profane and a religious one, Carm. 11 (the temple of Venus, vv. 17-33) and Carm. 27 in Ep. 2.10.4 (the church of Lyon, vv. 8-15) respectively.
Joop van Waarden has published an article with a cognitive take on the Rogations ritual (see Ep. 7.1) titled ‘The Emergence of the Gallic Rogations in a Cognitive Perspective’, in Nienke M. Vos and Albert C. Geljon (eds), Rituals in Early Christianity: New Perspectives on Tradition and Transformation.
Further to this here
Marco Onorato has contributed to a new volume of Présences ovidiennes with ‘La parola e il silenzio. Echi dell’ultimo Ovidio in un dittico paratestuale sidoniano’. See bibliography page 2020 and Academia
‘Tracce di un fecondo confronto con Ovidio e, in particolare, con la sua produzione dell’esilio affiorano nella praefatio epistolare del c. 22 di Sidonio, delineando l’esistenza di un paratesto ‘espanso’ che deborda nei primi versi del componimento e che sviluppa una riflessione organica sullo statuto del canto e sul rapporto con l’orizzonte d’attesa del pubblico. Emergono inoltre nuovi indizi della fortuna dell’Ibis nella Gallia tardoantica.’
