Stover & Woudhuysen and Sidonius in the HA

In a new article on ‘The Poet Nemesianus and the Historia Augusta‘, centred on onomastics in the Life of Carus (JRS 2022, open access), Justin Stover and George Woudhuysen, in passing (fn. 4), advocate some renewed confidence in the hypothesis that Sidonius Apollinaris is reflected in the HA:

‘The argument of Domaszewski (Die Personennamen bei den Scriptores historiae Augustae, Heidelberg, 1918: 19, here), that Aurelius Apollinaris was inspired by Sidonius Apollinaris, who did write about the deeds of Carus (Carm. 23.88–96), has been treated with greater contempt than it perhaps deserves’.

Furbetta on Letter Epigrams

Luciana Furbetta contributed ‘L’usage des procédés rhétoriques et leur fonction communicative dans l’épigramme latine: l’“épigramme lettre” comme cas d’étude’ to Florence Garambois-Vasquez and Daniel Vallat (eds), Stylistique et poétique de l’épigramme latine. Nouvelles études, Lyon: MOM, 2022, 181-201. Examples are drawn from Ausonius, Sidonius (Carm. 17 and 20) and Venantius Fortunatus.

The publication is freely accessible on OpenEdition

Vessey Reviews the Companion

In Early Medieval Europe first view, there is a review of the Companion by Mark Vessey:

– impeccably edited
– a work of reference which in the clarity and density of its coverage of a relatively compact oeuvre achieves a comprehensiveness scarcely conceivable for more historically influential figures
– speak[s] eloquently both for our own time and for what its authors agree in seeing as its subject’s mode of existence in his
– Sidonius has got the Companion he deserved.

Fernández López Translates Pervigilium

Conchita Fernández López has published a new translation into Galician and Castilian, with Latin text, of the Pervigilium Veneris. She opts for a date of Summer 475/476 and the probability of Sidonius’ authorship:

Perviligum Veneris. Alborada de Venus. Vísperas de Amor. Texto y traducciones gallega y castellana de María Concepción Fernández López, Lugo: AXAC, 2020.

Item in catalogue Axac here.