The City Cast in Poetry

‘Mettre la ville en poésie dans l’Antiquité tardive’ is the title of an online workshop on 18 June 2025, organised by Florence Garambois-Vasquez (University of Saint-Etienne) and Gaëlle Herbert de la Portbarré-Viard (University of Aix-Marseille). Abstracts are awaited by 30…

Authors, Addressees, and Audiences

Authors, Addressees, and Audiences in Roman Letters University of Edinburgh Seminar Room 1, Chrystal Macmillan Building Monday, 20th February 2023 This conference focuses on Roman letters from Cicero to Sidonius, and on the relationship of author, addressee, and audience. Each…

Workshop ‘Mixing Prose and Verse’

On 22 October, Margot Neger will be organising a workshop on mixing prose and verse in late antique literature. She herself is to speak on “Prose letter and verse epitaph: Sidonius Apollinaris on the violation of his grandfather’s tomb (Ep.…