Bruno Bleckmann reconsiders Van Hoof and Van Nuffelen’s rejection of the translation of the Vita Apollonii (Ep. 8.3.1) for being a spurium, referring, among others, to Mülke 2008, 236-43, and Köhler 2014.
Bruno Bleckmann, ‘Eine Fragmentsammlung spätlateinischer Historiker’, review article of Van Hoof and Van Nuffelen 2020, Histos 16 (2022) I-XXIX, esp. II-IV.
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Filomena Giannotti reviews Clifford Ando and Marco Formisano’s The New Late Antiquity: A Gallery of Intellectual Portraits in Quaderni di storia 95 (2022) 329-35
‘Insgesamt verdient es Hanaghans Studie, zu einem Standardwerk der Sidonius-Forschung zu werden’ is the conclusion of Gernot Michael Müller’s review of Michael Hanaghan’s 2019 monograph Reading Sidonius’ Epistles.
Published in Sehepunkte 21.5 (15 May 2021). Read here
Earlier reviews include van Waarden in Plekos 21 (2019) 308-309 and Neger in Gymnasium 126 (2019) 610-12.
Plekos has published a review by Veronika Egetenmeyr of the 2020 JLA special ‘The Muses and Leisure in Sidonius Apollinaris’, edited by Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer and Judith Hindermann.
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Under the title ‘Codex Nicholsonianus’, George Woudhuysen writes a broad review article of Oliver Nicholson’s 2018 The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, ‘first port of call for anyone with a basic question’ on Late Antiquity, in the Journal of Roman Studies 111 (2021) 225-38, online here.
In BSL 51,2, July-December 2021, pp. 719-21, Filomena Giannotti reviews Patrizia Mascoli’s recent Italian translation of Sidonius’ correspondence:
The same issue of BSL also contains an account of the Siena conference Metamorfosi del classico in età romanobarbarica (pp. 632-7).
Sara Fascione has written an extensive overview of Lo specchio del modello for Plekos 23 (2021) 261-69. Download here.
Paolo Mastandrea writes a review of the Companion in the Classical Review, FirstView 12 August 2021. He values the volume as ‘a well-structured and accessible text that does what older friends [i.e., many other companion volumes] should do: to assist the non-specialist or less-experienced scholar’. He signals the odd ‘fundamental contribution’ and ‘some fascinating surprises’. He thinks Sidonius’ Christian inclinations as an author should not be overstated and points out a number of (indirect) borrowings from Ennius.
Giulia Marolla reviews Sara Fascione’s “Gli ‘altri’ al potere” in Plekos 23 (2021) 237-41.
Hendrik Hess (Bonn) comes up with a review of the Companion in Historische Zeitschrift 312 (2021) 760-61. He values it as ‘ein unverzichtbarer Begleiter für Studien zur gallischen Geschichte des 5. Jahrhunderts im Allgemeinen und zu Sidonius’ Texten im Speziellen’, in which gender aspects remain somewhat underexposed.
