Sidonius in Roman Letters

Sidonius’ correspondence is among the odd 8,000 letters contained in the new online AI-powered ‘Roman Letters’ database. ‘Roman Letters grows out of a simple observation in Patrick Wyman’s 2016 USC dissertation, Letters, Mobility, and the Fall of the Roman Empire: the…

Epistles from Cicero to Sidonius

In a themed issue on Latin epistolography in honour of Eleanor Leach, Peter White writes on ‘Senatorial Epistolography from Cicero to Sidonius: Emergence of a Genre’, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 61 (2018) 7-21.  – Abstract. Although Cicero’s letter…

Reading Sidonius’ Epistles

Michael Hanaghan has written a monograph on Sidonius’ Epistles, about to be published by Cambridge University Press in January 2019. From the blurb in the catalogue: ‘This book provides a fuller understanding of [Sidonius’] contribution to Latin literature, as a…

The Latest on Late Epistolography

Edited by Gernot Michael Müller, a multi-author volume on Latin epistolography in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages has come out: Zwischen Alltagskommunikation und literarischer Identitätsbildung. Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser contributes a chapter on Sidonius: ‘Vom Epulonenschmaus zum Fest der Worte’.…