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.
A question intriguing as ever, addressed anew by John Collis, ‘Where did Sidonius Apollinaris live?’, in Martin Henig a.o., Villas, Sanctuaries and Settlement in the Romano-British Countryside: New Perspectives and Controversies.
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Graham Robb, in his travel account France: An Adventure History, London: Picador, 2022, revives the ancient theory of the Lake of Sarliève (south-east of Clermont, surmounted by Gergovia) as the location of Avitacum (part 1, ch. 2 ‘A Home in Gaul’). Cf. Stevens 1933, 187-88, Trément 2007.
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