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Hindermann on Precious Materials

Judith Hindermann wrote ‘The rejection (recusatio) of precious materials in Sidonius Apollinaris’ letters and poems’, published in Martin A. Guggisberg and Annemarie Kaufmann-Heinimann (eds), Light and Splendour: Edelmetall als Medium ritueller und sozialer Interaktion in der Spätantike, Basel: Librum, 2025,…

Köhler on Sidonius’ Letters

Helga Köhler contributed chapter 38, Die Briefe des Sidonius Apollinaris (pp. 1092-1104), to Eve-Marie Becker, Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser and Alfons Fürst (eds), Handbuch Brief. Antike, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025.

Santelia on Carm. 16 and Erotic Poetry

Stefania Santelia writes on Carm. 16 and Catullus/Theocritus in ‘Raccontarsi nei Carmina minora: Sidonio e il tempo della “tenera giovinezza”’. It is part (pp. 119-28) of: Filomena Giannotti and Daniele Di Rienzo (eds), In aula ingenti memoriae meae. Forme di…

Recupero Porcino Launches New Sidonius Edition

Eleonora Recupero Porcino (Ca’ Foscari Venice) launched the demo version of a new digital edition of Sidonius’ works, called Sidoniana. It introduces itself as follows: The Sidoniana project is a digital edition project of the entire correspondence of Sidonius Apollinaris,…

Recupero Porcino on Portal ‘Sidoniana’

Eleonora Recupero Porcino (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) will speak on ‘L’epistolario di Sidonio Apollinare dagli archivi digitali al portale “Sidoniana”: problemi metodologici e prospettive’. Date/time: 5 June 11h15 Workshop: Digital Latin II. International Workshop 4-6 June (Univ. Siena and Venice)…

Quentel on the Definite Article

Gilles Quentel published L’Émergence de l’article défini du latin classique aux premiers textes français, Études de linguistique, littérature et art 71, Berlin: Peter Lang, 2025. Here is to the publisher’s catalogue. Section 3.2.1 ‘Sidoine Apollinaire: Epistulae‘

The City Cast in Poetry

‘Mettre la ville en poésie dans l’Antiquité tardive’ is the title of an online workshop on 18 June 2025, organised by Florence Garambois-Vasquez (University of Saint-Etienne) and Gaëlle Herbert de la Portbarré-Viard (University of Aix-Marseille). Abstracts are awaited by 30…

Montone on Ep. 5.17

Francesco Montone writes on ‘Riti sacri, giochi … e poesia: per un commento a Sid. Apoll. epist. 5.17’ in Vichiana 62 (2025) 65-81. See sample in Academia.

Forsman on Epistolary Fiction

Deanna Forsman (North Hennepin Community College) is to speak on ‘Sidonius Apollinaris’s Letters as Epistolary Fiction’ at the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies hosted by Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, to be held 8-10 May 2025. Programme here, registration here.

Osnabrügge on the Decayed Necropolis

Jonas Osnabrügge wrote an excursus on the decayed tomb of Sidonius’ grandfather (‘Exkurs – Sidonius Apollinaris und die verfallene Nekropole’) in his monograph Die epigraphische Kultur an Oberrhein und Neckar in römischer Zeit, Stuttgart: Steiner, 2024, on pp. 345-6.