Now out, edited by Céline Urlacher-Becht, Dictionnaire de l’épigramme littéraire dans l’Antiquité grecque et romaine, 2 vols A-H, I-Z, Turnhout: Brepols, 2023.
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Atlas of Clermont 1st c. BCE – 5th c. CE
A comprehensive topographical atlas of ancient Clermont has come out: Hélène Dartevelle (ed.), Augustonemetum. Atlas topographique de Clermont-Ferrand, 2 vols, Gollion: Infolio, 2022.
Announced by the French Ministère de la Culture: ‘La publication présente la ville antique de Clermont-Ferrand, Augustonemetum, capitale gallo-romaine des Arvernes: son organisation spatiale, sa genèse et son évolution de la fin du Ier av. J.-C. au Ve ap. J.-C.’
In catalogue of publishing house Infolio here
The Battle of the Catalaunian Fields
For enthusiasts of military history, just out Federico Canaccini, Il medioevo in 21 battaglie (Laterza). Chapter 1 deals with the Battle of the Catalaunian Fields: ‘Un’ultima vittoria prima della fine. Campi Cataláunici, 451’.
Out Now: Hindermann’s Book 2
Judith Hindermann has published her translation and commentary of Book 2 of the Correspondence: Sidonius Apollinaris’ Letters, Book 2: Text, Translation and Commentary, Edinburgh Studies in Later Latin Literature, Edinburgh: EUP.
There is a 30% launch discount (NEW30) for anyone purchasing.
This book issues from the SA xxi project (Sidonius Apollinaris for the 21st Century) and begins the ESLLL series (Edinburgh Studies in Later Latin Literature), edited by Gavin Kelly and Aaron Pelttari.
Stenger on Education in Late Antiquity
Just out: Jan R. Stenger, Education in Late Antiquity: Challenges, Dynamism, and Reinterpretation, 300-550 CE, Oxford: OUP.
ToC
Introduction
1:Educational Communities
2:The Emergence of Religious Education
3:What Men Could Learn from Women
4:The Life of Paideia
5:Moulding the Self and the World
6:The Making of the Late Antique Mind
Conclusion
Reis on Identities and Frontiers
Gabriel Reis’ master thesis at the University of Santa Maria (Brasil) has been published. The book is titled Identitades e Fronteiras na Antiguidade Tardia and investigates power negotiations among Romans based in Gaul and Italy and Germanic people.
It is accessible via Academia.
Its genesis is within the research group of Prof. Semíramis Corsi Silva, Grupo de Estudos sobre o Mundo Antigo Mediterrânico GEMAM.
Voyages from Homer to Venantius Fortunatus
Claude Sintes has made a collection of travel literature entitled Bibliothèque idéale des Odyssées: D’Homère à Fortunat, Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2022.
Sidonius features with:
– Sidoine invite un ami à Bordeaux (Ep. 8.12)
– Adieu à son livre (Carm. 24)
– Le voyage de Lyon à Rome (Ep. 1.5)
Green Translates Sidonius’ Poetry
Out now the first complete translation into English of Sidonius’ poetry after Anderson’s, almost a century ago: Roger Green, Sidonius Apollinaris. Complete Poems, translated with introduction and commentary, Translated Texts for Historians 76, Liverpool: LUP, 2022.
Avitacum Near Gergovia?
Graham Robb, in his travel account France: An Adventure History, London: Picador, 2022, revives the ancient theory of the Lake of Sarliève (south-east of Clermont, surmounted by Gergovia) as the location of Avitacum (part 1, ch. 2 ‘A Home in Gaul’). Cf. Stevens 1933, 187-88, Trément 2007.
Link to the catalogue here
Hindermann’s Book 2 Announced
The publication of Judith Hindermann’s Sidonius Apollinaris’ Letters, Book 2: Text, Translation and Commentary has been announced by Edinburgh University Press for September 2022. It is part of the new series ‘Edinburgh Studies in Later Latin Literature’.
Go here for the announcement.
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