Tag: Carm. 27

Sidonius’ Poem for Patiens Translated

Sidonius’ poem for the dedication of Bishop Patiens’ church in Lyon (Carm. 27 in Ep. 2.10, including the prose introduction paras 2b-4) has been translated into French and Russian by Sergey Kim as part of a two-volume box Les saints de Lyon: I Martyrs de Lyon, II Les saints évêques de Lyon, Saints bilingues vols 3-4, Ferney-Voltaire: Eikôn, 2024 (in part 2, 135-45).

Item in catalogue here

Onorato on ‘The Poet and the Light’

In a new article, ‘The Poet and the Light’, Marco Onorato develops two different applications of Prudentius’ ekphrasis of light and colour in the Temple of Wisdom in Psychomachia 823-887 in Sidonius’ poems, a profane and a religious one, Carm. 11 (the temple of Venus, vv. 17-33) and Carm. 27 in Ep. 2.10.4 (the church of Lyon, vv. 8-15) respectively.

See bibliography 2020