The ancient historian Dariusz Brodka passed away on 2 January 2024 at the age of 54. Director of the Institute of Classical Philology at the Jagiellonian University in Warsaw, he was a specialist of Late Antiquity, notably publishing on Ammianus Marcellinus and Procopius of Caesarea. In the 1990s, he wrote two papers on Sidonius:

– ‘Die Idee der ‘Roma Aeterna’ in den Kaiserpanegyriken des Sidonius Apollinaris’, 1997, and
– ‘Die Weltherrschaftstopik in den Kaiserpanegyriken des Sidonius Apollinaris’, 1998.