Fiorentini on Tyrants

Marzia Fiorentini (University of St Andrews – Sapienza Università di Roma) passed her viva with the PhD thesis ‘Tyrants in Late Antiquity: A Rhetorical and Historical Analysis of Claudian and Sidonius’, supervised by Roger Rees and Gianfranco Agosti. Abstract: The…

(Dis)Continuity in the Vandal Kingdom

Roman Continuity and Discontinuity in the Vandal Kingdom is the title of a two-day conference at the University of Hamburg, 7-8 December. Marzia Fiorentini (University of St. Andrews) speaks on ‘Africa calling: Roman emperors against the Vandalic tyrant in Sidonius…