Jonas Osnabrügge wrote an excursus on the decayed tomb of Sidonius’ grandfather (‘Exkurs – Sidonius Apollinaris und die verfallene Nekropole’) in his monograph Die epigraphische Kultur an Oberrhein und Neckar in römischer Zeit, Stuttgart: Steiner, 2024, on pp. 345-6.
Now also in print: Joop van Waarden, ‘The Death and Public Rehabilitation of Apollinaris the Elder: Intertextuality with Lucan in Sidonius Apollinaris, Epist. 3.12’, CQ 74 (2024) 309-14.
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Joop van Waarden comes up with a new allusion to Pompey’s tomb in Lucan, shedding light on the death of Sidonius’ grandfather: ‘The Death and Public Rehabilitation of Apollinaris the Elder: Intertextuality with Lucan in Sidonius Apollinaris, Epist. 3.12’, CQ FirstView 30 April 2024.
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