Filomena Giannotti turns her attention to Sidonius’ epitaph of his grandfather: ‘Levigata pagina. Riconsiderando l’epitaffio di Sidonio per il nonno Apollinare (ep. 3,12)’, Invigilata Lucernis 43 (2021).
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Wolff on the Rogations
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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Giannotti on Mirror-Games in Reception
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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Egetenmeyr on The Others
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.
Gusso on a “Free” Senate
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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Van Waarden Leafing Through Pliny
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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Hanaghan on Sidonius’ Ep. 4.3
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.
Marrón on a Metrical Licence
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.
Portraits in the Forum of Trajan
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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Sidonius and the Cursus Publicus
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).