The Companion Continued

Chapter 15: Joop van Waarden and Gavin Kelly, ‘Prose Rhythm in Sidonius’, pp. 462-75


Gavin Kelly — 22 March 2021

Sidonius’ Prose Rhythm: A Supplement

The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris contains some chapters that aspire to be comprehensive surveys of subjects already well treated in scholarship, and others that represent an early stage of research where much more remains to be investigated. The chapter on ‘Sidonius’ prose rhythm’ by Joop van Waarden and me (on pp. 462-475) is definitely in the latter category. The aim of this post is to supplement and illustrate the information given there, and to offer one or two afterthoughts. …