Sidonius Apollinaris

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BIBLIOGRAPHIES
2012
van Oudenaren, Gilles, ‘Bishops in conflict. The changing role of the bishop in conflict situations in Late Antiquity: Cyprian to Sidonius Apollinaris’, MA thesis, University of Amsterdam, 2012.

2024
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• info: Sidonius on pp. 964-75

2025
Elizagoyen, Vanessa, Simon Esmonde Cleary, Michel Kasprzyk and Martial Monteil (eds), Topographie urbaine en Gaule durant l’Antiquité tardive: des chefs-lieux de cité multipolaires, Gallia 83 (2025).

• freemium access

Montone, Francesco, ‘Un poeta, l’imperatore Maggioriano (457-461) … e la Campania: Il secondo panegirico di Sidonio Apollinare’, Salternum 29, issues 54-55 (2025) 65-104.

• Academia

[Stähle, Quid poema frangat?, add second bullet point:]

• review by Joop van Waarden in Plekos 28 (2026) 1-9

2026
John, Alison, Learning and Power in Late Antique Gaul: Classical Education and the End of Roman Rule, Cambridge: CUP, 2026.

• catalogue

van Waarden, Joop, Sidonius Apollinaris: Selected Letters, Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, Cambridge: CUP, 2026.

• catalogue

AFTERMATH: MANUSCRIPTS
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On this manuscript, which sheds light on the earliest transmission, see Dolveck in the Companion volume, chapter 16, p. 483 n. 20, and Mathisen (1998), (1999b), in Cristiana Sogno et al. (eds), Late Antique Letter Collections, Berkeley, CA (2016) pp. 345-48, and in the Companion (2020) pp. 635-39. For a later excerpt ultimately going back to this MS, see Aftermath: Reception: Abbé Lespine.

AFTERMATH: COMMENTARIES
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Early-modern and modern commentaries
Early-modern and modern commentaries are typically found as part of editions of Sidonius’ work, for which see the Editions page.
There is a separate manuscript series of notes towards a commentary on the Epithalamium for Ruricius and Hiberia (Carm. 10-11) by the French historiographer Étienne Baluze (1630-1718) in BNF Baluze 126. It is in several parts: ff. 172-194 on the Epithalamium (on its beginnning in particular here); ff. 195-199 quotations and various notes, possibly relating to the commentary; ff. 200-213 on de Praefatio. Interestingly, Baluze tries to solve the conundrum of the opening of the Epithalamium by interpreting Cyaneas … cautes as the capes of Rio and Antirrio, which delimit the Gulf of Corinth to the west.

AFTERMATH: RECEPTION
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Abbé Lespine (1757-1831): Manuscript Périgord 43, in the French National Library, is a volume of notes towards a Vitae sanctorum Petragorici by Abbé Lespine; on f. 31 r., it contains a list of selected letters by Sidonius according to their addressees, most probably (following the order of the collection) Epp. 3.2, 3.8, 3.10, 4.21, 4.23, 4.25, 5.2, 5.4, 5.7, 5.15, 5.16, 6.12 [sic], 6.1, 6.4, 6.10, 7.1, 7.5, 7.13, 8.10, 8.12, 8.14, 9.7, 9.9 and 9.12. Lespine transcribed it, as he indicates, from Heinrich Canisius’ edition of MS Sankt Gallen 190 (see Manuscripts D105) in Antiquae lectiones, tomus V (Ingolstadt, 1604), pp. 455-56 — an edition which he also excerpted for Ruricius of Limoges and Desiderius of Cahors.