Ben Davis (University of California, Los Angeles) is to speak on “Rurality and Romanitas: Sidonius Apollinaris and the Poetics of Landscape in Late Antique Gaul” at the 51st Annual Meeting of CAPN (Willamette University, Salem).
Date/time: Saturday 19 March, 10:15 PDT.
Website: www.capn-classics.org/
Now out: Filomena Giannotti, Scrinia Arverna: Studi su Sidonio Apollinare, Studi e testi di storia antica 29, Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2021.
Click here for the item in the publisher’s catalogue.
The publication of Judith Hindermann’s Sidonius Apollinaris’ Letters, Book 2: Text, Translation and Commentary has been announced by Edinburgh University Press for September 2022. It is part of the new series ‘Edinburgh Studies in Later Latin Literature’.
Go here for the announcement.
Featured image: Department of Classical Studies, University of Basel.
Filomena Giannotti reviews Clifford Ando and Marco Formisano’s The New Late Antiquity: A Gallery of Intellectual Portraits in Quaderni di storia 95 (2022) 329-35
Celis Tittse (BA student in Medieval History at Radboud University Nijmegen) contributes a paper entitled ‘A Changing Roman World and Its Networks’ in which he makes an attempt at comparing the networks of Sidonius and Avitus in evidence in their correspondences, applying Social Network Analysis and statistical methods. To this end, Ralph Mathisen kindly made available the Sidonius database that is also at the basis of his chapters ‘Sidonius’ People’ and ‘A Prosopography of Sidonius’ in the Companion (pp. 29-165).
Download Celis’ paper from the Contributions page. On the same page, there is a link to the fully scalable graphs and figures.
‘Insgesamt verdient es Hanaghans Studie, zu einem Standardwerk der Sidonius-Forschung zu werden’ is the conclusion of Gernot Michael Müller’s review of Michael Hanaghan’s 2019 monograph Reading Sidonius’ Epistles.
Published in Sehepunkte 21.5 (15 May 2021). Read here
Earlier reviews include van Waarden in Plekos 21 (2019) 308-309 and Neger in Gymnasium 126 (2019) 610-12.
Tomasz Babnis writes on Roman embassies to Persia, comparing passages in Claudian and Sidonius: ‘Idem aliter, czyli o dwóch opisach dyplomatycznej podróży do Persji w poezji późnego antyku (Claud. Cons. Stil. I 51–68; Sid. Carm. II 75–88)’ [… two descriptions of a diplomatic trip to Persia in the poetry of Late Antiquity], Collectanea Philologica 24 (2021) 111-25.
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Judith Hindermann and Raphael Schwitter will speak on late Latin poetry and Sidonius in particular at the upcoming conference “Light and Splendour: precious metal as a medium of ritual and social interaction in Late Antiquity”, in Basel (hybrid) on 20-22 January.
From the programme:
20 January
16:00–17:00 Light and splendour in literature
PD Dr. Raphael Schwitter, Bonn
Words of gold and silver: iconic and symbolic mimesis of precious metal in Late Antique poetry
Dr. Judith Hindermann, Basel
A new splendour: the recusatio of precious materials in Sidonius Apollinaris’ letters
and poems
17:00–17:30 Discussion
For in-person attendance email to annemarie.kaufmannATunibas.ch
Zoom: https://unibas.zoom.us/s/68889057751
