Marco Onorato wrote an interpretation of Carmen 21 De piscibus nocte captis, ‘Le tenebre e il lago. Il De piscibus nocte captis di Sidonio Apollinare e il ciclo di Avitaco’, in Orazio Portuese (ed.), Sagaci corde. Studi di filologia classica per Rosa Maria D’Angelo e Antonino Maria Milazzo, Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2023, 283-93.
Furbetta on ‘nugae’ in Sidonius
Luciana Furbetta reconsiders the notion of nugae in Sidonius in ‘Nostrae vagae nugae: Sidonio Apollinare e la poesia’, in: Angelo Luceri (ed.), Profili di poesia latina tardoantica, Res Publica Litterarum Quaderni 1, Rome: RomaTre-Press, 2024, 53-86.
Available in open access here
Montone on the Panegyric of Avitus
Adding another article to his series on Sidonius, Francesco Montone has written ‘L’imperatore Eparchio Avito (455-456) nel panegirico di Sidonio Apollinare’, Salternum 50-51 (2023) 43-71.
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Lamoine on Sidonius in 471
Laurent Lamoine has published 471. L’évêque contre le roi, Sidoine Apollinaire défend sa cité, Cette-année-là à Clermont-Ferrand, Portet-sur-Garonne: Éditions Midi-Pyrénéennes, 2023.
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Résumé:
471 : Sidoine Apollinaire est élu évêque des Arvernes. Que vient faire ce sénateur, ancien préfet de Rome, à la tête de la cité arverne ? L’homme vient se mettre au service de la résistance au roi wisigoth Euric, qui cherche à s’emparer de la ville. Malgré son énergie, son entregent et ses talents de propagandiste, Sidoine Apollinaire échoue. Après un très court exil, il rentre à Clermont pour reprendre sa pastorale. Pendant des siècles, les Clermontois ne se souviennent que du saint. Seuls le combat contre les fascismes des années noires et la découverte à Clermont-Ferrand, dans les années 1980/1990, des fragments de l’épitaphe d’un Apollinaire ont réveillé le souvenir de l’évêque combattant.
Green’s Translation Now in Paperback
Roger Green’s TTH translation of Sidonius’ Poetry is now available in paperback.
Dariusz Brodka Dies
The ancient historian Dariusz Brodka passed away on 2 January 2024 at the age of 54. Director of the Institute of Classical Philology at the Jagiellonian University in Warsaw, he was a specialist of Late Antiquity, notably publishing on Ammianus Marcellinus and Procopius of Caesarea. In the 1990s, he wrote two papers on Sidonius:
– ‘Die Idee der ‘Roma Aeterna’ in den Kaiserpanegyriken des Sidonius Apollinaris’, 1997, and
– ‘Die Weltherrschaftstopik in den Kaiserpanegyriken des Sidonius Apollinaris’, 1998.
Poveda Arias on Threats to Metropolitans
Pablo Poveda Arias writes on ‘Threatening Metropolitan Authority in Fifth-Century Gaul’ in Bishops under Threat: Contexts and Episcopal Strategies in the Late Antique and Early Medieval West, edited by Sabine Panzram and himself (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023).
Here to the catalogue.
Porena on the Syagrii
Pierfrancesco Porena contributes ‘Simmaco, Sidonio Apollinare e la gloriosa genealogia dei Syagrii di Lione’ to the latest open-access issue of the Annali della SNS di Pisa, Mouvements de personnes, circulation littéraire et rapports politiques, edited by Luciana Furbetta, Fabrizio Oppedisano and Céline Urlacher-Becht.
Languages in the Western Provinces
Alex Mullen and George Woudhuysen have edited a collaborative volume titled Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces (Oxford, 2023).
It is in open access here.
Giannotti Revisits Ep. 8.3
Filomena Giannotti reconsiders the interpretation of Ep. 8.3 in ‘Translation vs Decadence: Revisiting Sidonius Apollinaris’ Ep. 8, 3’, PAN 12 n.s. (2023) 115-29.
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