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.

Listed in the publisher’s catalogue

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.

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

Mondin on Martial in Sidonius

In an extensive article, Luca Mondin makes an inventory of traces of Martial in Christian poets: ‘Un classico inaspettato? Marziale nella poesia cristiana’, in: Concetta Longobardi (ed.), Poetica spolia. Il reimpiego del testo dei poeti nei generi letterari della Tarda Latinità, Trieste: EUT, 2024, 109-220.

Available here in Academia. The list includes Sidon. Carm. 16.128; 17 (in particular vv. 5-6 and 8); 27.22-7 (in Ep. 2.10.4); 28.11 (in 3.12.5); 30.1 and 22 (in 4.11.6); and 31.2 (in 4.18.5).

The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature

New out Roy Gibson and Christopher Whitton (eds), The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature, CUP 2024.

Sidonius specifically figures in Gavin Kelly’s chapter on Periodisations (pp. 97-157)

“The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature offers a critical overview of work on Latin literature. Where are we? How did we get here? Where to next? Fifteen commissioned chapters, along with an extensive introduction and Mary Beard’s postscript, approach these questions from a range of angles. They aim not to codify the field, but to give snapshots of the discipline from different perspectives, and to offer provocations for future development. The Critical Guide aims to stimulate reflection on how we engage with Latin literature. Texts, tools and territories are the three areas of focus. The Guide situates the study of classical Latin literature within its global context from late antiquity to Neo-Latin, moving away from an exclusive focus on the pre-200 CE corpus. It recalibrates links with adjoining disciplines (history, philosophy, material culture, linguistics, political thought, Greek), and takes a fresh look at key tools (editing, reception, intertextuality, theory).”

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