Veronika Egetenmeyr is interviewed on her work on “others” aka “barbarians” in a series produced by the University of Oldenburg. Watch here.
She has also just put out an article on this issue titled “Kontingenz und die Konstruktion des ‘Anderen'” in a collective volume edited by Matthias Becher and Hendrik Hess, Kontingenzerfahrungen und ihre Bewältigung zwischen imperium und regna.
Massimo Gusso, in ‘Sidonius Apollinaris and the “Senate in Exile”: On a “Republican” Poetic Metaphor’, Lexis 39.1 (June 2021), writes on the republican fiction of a senate “free from the emperor” in Carm. 7.
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Joop van Waarden connects Sidon. Ep. 1.1 to a couple of Pliny’s letters. His piece has just been published as an advance article of Mnemosyne: “Leafing through Pliny with Sidonius: Sidon. Ep. 1.1, Plin. Ep. 1.1, 1.2, and 1.5, and Satire”.
Online open access
Michael Hanaghan explains how a reading of Jerome’s Ep. 58 subverts Sidonius’ wordy praise of Claudianus’ De statu animae in Ep. 4.3:
‘Sidonius Apollinaris contra Claudianus Mamertus: Jerome, Julianus Pomerius, and the Subversion of Praise’, Journal of Early Christian Studies 29 (2021) 215-35.
Gabriela Marrón (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca) interprets the metrical licence ‘Orphéüm’ (Carm. 35.19) as intentional in connection with a similar case in Dracontius: ‘De-cadencias y traspiés. Estrategias intertexuales en la Antigüedad Tardía’, Circe 25 (2021) 161-81.
Gregor Kalas writes on the cultural significance of Sidonius’ portrait bust among others in ‘Portraits of Poets and the Lecture Halls in the Forum of Trajan: Masking Cultural Tensions in Late Antique Rome’, in: Gregor Kalas and Ann van Dijk (eds), Urban Developments in Late Antique and Medieval Rome: Revising the Narrative of Renewal, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021, 75-108.
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Sylvie Crogiez-Pétrequin devotes pages 453-54 of her article ‘Les bénéficiaires du cursus publicus: des privilégiés?’, Revue historique 698 (2021) 447-62 to Sidonius’ voyage to Rome in 467.
See also her 2010 article ‘Sidoine Apollinaire et le col du Petit Saint Bernard’ (biblio, tab 2010).
In ‘La Psychomachia de Prudencio: un artefacto inspirado’, Circe 25 (2021) 141-59, Juan Manuel Danza (Bahía Blanca, Universidad Nacional del Sur) compares Sidonius’ Ad Catullinum poem for the negative metapoetics of Late Antiquity.
Alison John writes on ‘(Mis)Identifying Teachers in Late Antique Gaul: Sidonius’ Ep. 4.11, Mamertus Claudianus and Classical vs. Christian Education’, in Mnemosyne.
Online Publication Date: 11 May 2021.
In: Advance Articles, open access.
Douglas Underwood covers Bordeaux, Toulouse and Narbonne in ‘Good Neighbors and Good Walls: Urban Development and Trade Networks in Late Antique South Gaul’, in: Michael J. Kelly and Michael Burrows (eds), Urban Interactions: Communication and Competition in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, Binghamton, NY: Gracchi Books, 2020, 373-427.
Available at Punctum Books open access
