Luciana Furbetta contributed the entry ‘Sidoine Apollinaire’ to Céline Urlacher-Becht’s Dictionnaire de l’épigramme littéraire, pp. 1365-70.
Classics Seminars Edinburgh
The Classics Department of Edinburgh University has announced its research seminars for the first half of 2023. For Sidonius and late antique Gaul they include:
Wednesday 8 Feb, 5.10, Teviot Lecture Theatre
Giulia Marolla (Bari) Four Burgundian kings in fifth-century Gaul? The case of Sidonius Ep. 5.7.
Thursday 18 May, 2.10, Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre
Adrastos Omissi (Glasgow) Late Roman Italy, late Roman Gaul: their strategic and geographic relationship
These are hybrid lectures. Please contact Dr Ben Harriman (Benjamin.Harriman [at] ed.ac.uk) for the link; please also contact him if you wish to be added to the seminar mailing list.
Seminar organisers: Ben Harriman, Gavin Kelly
Dictionary of Literary Epigram Is Out
Now out, edited by Céline Urlacher-Becht, Dictionnaire de l’épigramme littéraire dans l’Antiquité grecque et romaine, 2 vols A-H, I-Z, Turnhout: Brepols, 2023.
Information here
Atlas of Clermont 1st c. BCE – 5th c. CE
A comprehensive topographical atlas of ancient Clermont has come out: Hélène Dartevelle (ed.), Augustonemetum. Atlas topographique de Clermont-Ferrand, 2 vols, Gollion: Infolio, 2022.
Announced by the French Ministère de la Culture: ‘La publication présente la ville antique de Clermont-Ferrand, Augustonemetum, capitale gallo-romaine des Arvernes: son organisation spatiale, sa genèse et son évolution de la fin du Ier av. J.-C. au Ve ap. J.-C.’
In catalogue of publishing house Infolio here
Litovchenko on Captatio benevolentiae
Elena Litovchenko has published an article on ‘Captatio benevolentiae in late antique epistolography as a means of preserving communication of the intellectual elite’ (Perm University Bulletin 59/4 (2022) 11-17).
Online here
Alciati Reviews the Companion
Roberto Alciati reviews the Companion in Annali di storia dell’esegesi 39 (2022) 485-87.
‘… un imponente volume di più di ottocento pagine e ventiquattro contributi, molti dei quali destinati a diventare testi di riferimento per la ricerca sidoniana, e più in generale per la storia della Gallia tardoantica.’
Giannotti on Tacitus in Sidonius
The latest of Filomena Giannotti is ‘Maxumam solitudinem appello: The Presence of Tacitus in Sidonius Apollinaris’, Pan 11 n.s. (2022) 67-77.
Read it here
Where Did Sidonius Apollinaris Live?
A question intriguing as ever, addressed anew by John Collis, ‘Where did Sidonius Apollinaris live?’, in Martin Henig a.o., Villas, Sanctuaries and Settlement in the Romano-British Countryside: New Perspectives and Controversies.
Upcoming January 2023. Announced here.
Furbetta on Ovid in Sidonius
Luciana Furbetta contributed ‘Les Métamorphoses (et pas seulement) d’Ovide dans les vers et les lettres de Sidoine Apollinaire: quelques sondages’ to Hélène Vial (ed.), La poésie augustéenne et la rhétorique, Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2022, 369-87.
ToC in Academia
(Dis)Continuity in the Vandal Kingdom
Roman Continuity and Discontinuity in the Vandal Kingdom is the title of a two-day conference at the University of Hamburg, 7-8 December.
Marzia Fiorentini (University of St. Andrews) speaks on ‘Africa calling: Roman emperors against the Vandalic tyrant in Sidonius Apollinaris’.
Programme here