Hindermann on Letter and Epigram (Ep. 2.8)

Judith Hindermann, ‘Grabepigramm und Trauerbrief: Plinius der Jüngere, Martial, Ausonius, Hieronymus und Sidonius Apollinaris’, in: T. Fögen and N. Mindt (eds), Brief und Epigramm. Bezüge und Wechselwirkungen zwischen zwei Textsorten in Antike und Mittelalter, 2024, 197-228. She discusses Ep. 2.8…

Neger on Letter and Epigram (Ep. 4.11, 8.11)

Margot Neger, ‘Brief und Epigramm in den Nachrufen auf Literaten bei Sidonius Apollinaris (Epist. 4,11 und 8,11)’, in: Thorsten Fögen and Nina Mindt (eds), Brief und Epigramm, Berlin: De Gruyter, 229-58. View catalogue

Börm on the Failure of Anthemius

Henning Börm, ‘Enttäuschte Eliten. Das Scheitern des Kaisers Anthemius als historische Zäsur’, in: Jan-Markus Kötter, Maria Osmers, Dorothea Rohde and Jan Timmer (eds), Zum Umgang mit Enttäuschungen in der Antike, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 245-65. See volume in catalogue Read…

Cadili on the Consular Robe

Luca Cadili, ‘In tunica Iouis: Sidoine Apollinaire et les antiquités romaines’, RET 12 (2022-2023) 39-50. Access via RET contents Abstract: In the panegyrics in honor of Avitus, Majorian, and Anthemius (carm. 7, 5, and 2), Sidonius Apollinaris gives detailed accounts…

Wolff on Juvenal in Sidonius

Étienne Wolff, ‘Présence de Juvénal dans l’Antiquité tardive et notamment chez Ausone’, in: Grégoire Blanc, Fabrice Galtier and Rémy Poignault (eds), Présence de Juvénal, Caesarodunum LIV-LV bis, Clermont-Ferrand, 2022, 275-85. From Sidonius, discussions of Carm. 9.271-3, Ep. 8.9.1 (Juv. 7.62),…

Clay on Wilderness and Civilization

John-Henry Clay, ‘Claiming the Wilderness in Late Roman Gaul’, JECS 30 (2022) 403-32. Abstract. To the educated classical mind, the cosmos was built on a dichotomy between order and chaos that permeated the physical and natural world. Wilderness was a…

Becker on the Power of Humility

Audrey Becker writes on ‘The Power of Humility: Fifth-Century Gallic Bishops in Negotiations with Barbarian Kings’ in the latest thematic issue of Studies in Late Antiquity. Abstract. This essay examines the diplomatic efforts of Gallic bishops with barbarian kings, in…

Litovchenko on Epistolary Communication

Elena Litovchenko published ‘”In the arms of letters”: textual mechanisms of communication in late antique epistolary networks’ [in Russian with English abstract] in Research Result. Theoretical and Applied Linguistics 9 (2023) 159-77. Online access here

Furbetta on Interactional Dynamics

Luciana Furbetta wrote ‘Dinamiche interazionali tra le élites e il potere a partire dalla testimonianza delle epistole di Sidonio Apollinare e Avito di Vienne’, Rivista Storica dell’Antichità 53 (2023) 297-313. Abstract. The paper proposes some reflections on the possibility of…

Onorato on Carm. 21

Marco Onorato wrote an interpretation of Carmen 21 De piscibus nocte captis, ‘Le tenebre e il lago. Il De piscibus nocte captis di Sidonio Apollinare e il ciclo di Avitaco’, in Orazio Portuese (ed.), Sagaci corde. Studi di filologia classica…