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In ‘La Psychomachia de Prudencio: un artefacto inspirado’, Circe 25 (2021) 141-59, Juan Manuel Danza (Bahía Blanca, Universidad Nacional del Sur) compares Sidonius’ Ad Catullinum poem for the negative metapoetics of Late Antiquity.
In the new Anthologie bilingue de la poésie latine in the Pléiade series, Sidonius is represented with two fragments of the Panegyric to Avitus (Carm. 7, lines 20-50 and 118-55), the famous quip on the Burgundians (Carm. 12), and the…
Impossible for a Roman to compose a poem with Germanic spoken around. Stefania Santelia compares ‘De conviviis barbaris’ from the Anthologia Latina with Sidon. Carm. 12 and Ennod. Epigr. 2.67. See bibliography, tab 2020.
Today, on the occasion of Sidonius’ death on a 21/23rd August some 1,540 years ago, a striking piece of literary reception giving an unexpected twist to the famous Carmen 12 on the impossibility of writing poetry among the barbarians. Playwright…
