Nicholas Hudson has written Dining at the End of Antiquity: Class, Status, and Identity at Roman Tables, Oakland: UCPress, 2024.
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Van Waarden on Lucan in Sidonius
Now also in print: Joop van Waarden, ‘The Death and Public Rehabilitation of Apollinaris the Elder: Intertextuality with Lucan in Sidonius Apollinaris, Epist. 3.12’, CQ 74 (2024) 309-14.
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Horváth on Gastronomy
Ágnes T. Horváth, ‘Változá valóság, irodalmi toposzok, intertextualitás Sidonius Apollinaris, gastronómiai köslézeiben’ [Changing reality, literary topos, intertextuality in the gastronomic contexts of Sidonius Apollinaris], in: Zsolt Hunyadi and Tomás Kőfalvi (eds), Napok, évek, századok: Tanulmányok Almási Tibor 65. születésnapjára [Days, Years, Centuries: Studies for Tibor Almasi’s 65th Birthday], Szeged: Szeged University, Institute of History, 2024, 165-79.
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Sidonius’ Poem for Patiens Translated
Sidonius’ poem for the dedication of Bishop Patiens’ church in Lyon (Carm. 27 in Ep. 2.10, including the prose introduction paras 2b-4) has been translated into French and Russian by Sergey Kim as part of a two-volume box Les saints de Lyon: I Martyrs de Lyon, II Les saints évêques de Lyon, Saints bilingues vols 3-4, Ferney-Voltaire: Eikôn, 2024 (in part 2, 135-45).
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Manuscripts Added
Links to two digitized manuscripts from the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel have been added to the Manuscripts page.
Furbetta on Landscape, Natural and Anthropic
Just published: Luciana Furbetta, ‘Paesaggio naturale e paesaggio antropico: rappresentazioni, interazioni e pratiche sociali tra scambi epistolari e divertissements poetici (IV-VI sec. d.C.)’, in: Ida Gilda Mastrorosa and Élisabeth Gavoille (eds), La villa et ses ressources naturelles, de l’Antiquité à la première modernité / La villa e le sue risorse naturali fra antichità e prima età moderna, Scripta receptoria 27. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2024, 69-92.
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Sara Fascione Appointed in Liège
New Appointment
Sara Fascione has been recently appointed as ‘chargée de cours’ of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Liège, in Belgium. She will work on the letter collections by Fronto, Symmachus and, of course, Sidonius, trying to cast further light on the dynamics of reception and circulation of letter collections in late antiquity.
Tackling the Floods in Ravenna with Sidonius
Bank president Antonio Patuelli shores up his argument for a special law to remediate the flooding in Ravenna with a quote from Sidonius.
Schwameis on Silius in Sidonius
The latest issue of Wiener Studien contains Christoph Schwameis, ‘Noster Scipiades’ (pp. 185-214). It studies the panegyrics of Claudian, Sidonius and Gorippus as examples of the late antique reception of Silius’ Punica.
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Freely Available: Where Did Sidonius Live?
John Collis kindly makes available his 2023 article ‘Where Did Sidonius Apollinaris Live?’ Download it here.
It was announced on this website some time ago and appeared in March 2023. It can now be downloaded from this website.
John Collis is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. He has carried out excavations in the Auvergne around Clermont-Ferrand and Gergovia, among other regions. In this article, he makes a case for the continuity of late Roman churches and burial sites to the early modern period on the basis of two new digs of churches in the Auvergne. This would heighten the probability of modern Aydat and its church as the site of Sidonius’ and Papianilla’s Avitacum, no doubt provided with a chapel and a graveyard. Any comments are welcome: j.r.collis AT sheffield.ac.uk