Étienne Wolff has written a contribution to the Festschrift for Prof. Guittard on the Rogations ceremony (Sidon. Ep. 5.14, 7.1): ‘Quelques remarques sur la lettre, V, 14 de Sidoine Apollinaire et les rogations’, in: Mathilde Simon and Étienne Wolff (eds), Operae pretium facimus. Mélanges en l’honneur de Charles Guittard, Collection Kubaba. Série antiquité, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2021, 759-65.
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Filomena Giannotti makes a comparison between Sidonius’ Ep. 4.8 (together with Carm. 29) and Jean Marcel’s rewriting in Sidoine et la dernière fête (1993): ‘Je suis le miroir à la fin de la décadence: Mirror-Games Between Sidonius Apollinaris and Jean Marcel’, ClassicoContemporaneo 7 (2021) 146-56.
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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”.
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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.
