Sidonius’ correspondence is among the odd 8,000 letters contained in the new online AI-powered ‘Roman Letters’ database.

‘Roman Letters grows out of a simple observation in Patrick Wyman’s 2016 USC dissertation, Letters, Mobility, and the Fall of the Roman Empire: the late Roman world left behind an extraordinary volume of surviving correspondence. Senators, bishops, monks, and imperial officials all relied on letters to maintain relationships across vast distances, and many of those letters still exist, scattered across digital archives and critical editions.

This project collects that scattered corpus into a single, structured database and provides tools for exploring the communication networks it reveals.’

For methodology and sources, see the About this project page.