Tag: Late Antiquity

6 October 2023

Tradition and New Authors: 26-27 October

Sara Fascione organizes an International Conference “Tradizione e nuovi auctores della Tarda Antichità” at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II on 26-27 October 2023.

For registration and Zoom link please write to sara.fascione AT unina.it

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26 October 2023

15.30 Welcome

15.50 Introduction: Sara Fascione, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Chair: Marisa Squillante

16.00 Jean-Louis Charlet, Université Aix-Marseille

Alcuni aspetti del dialogo culturale tra poeti latini della Tarda Antichità

16.30 Luca Mondin, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

Dicendi arte nova parem vetustis: la celebrazione dei nuovi auctores nella poesia tardolatina

Chair: Lucio De Giovanni

17.00 Andrea Pellizzari, Università degli Studi di Torino

Il lessico dell’agronomia nella scoliastica tardoantica: prestiti e confronti letterari

17.30 Sara Fascione, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Nullo veterum minor noster Symmachus. Leggere Simmaco in un mondo in cambiamento

18.00 Discussion

27 October 2023

Chair: Luca Mondin

9.00 Pierre Descotes, Université Paris-Sorbonne – Institut d’Études Augustiniennes

Hilaire, Cyprien, Tychonius: une discussion sur l’autorité d’auteurs ‘récents’ dans l’epistula 93 d’Augustin d’Hippone

9.30 Gavin Kelly, University of Edinburgh

The Latin secular historians of the fourth century and their early reception

10.00 Umberto Roberto, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Tradizione e nuovi modelli nella riflessione storico-politica dell’aristocrazia senatoria di Roma tra quarto e quinto secolo: la rappresentazione di Domiziano e Diocleziano

10.30-11.00 Discussion

11.00-11.30 coffee break

Chair: Chiara Renda

11.30 Silvia Condorelli, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Sidonio Apollinare e Paolino di Périgueux: consonanze poetiche

12.00 Alfredo Mario Morelli, Università degli Studi di Ferrara

Lussorio e gli auctores epigrammatici latini tardo-antichi

12.30 Discussion

13.00-14.30 Lunch break

14.30 Conclusion and final remarks: Claudio Buongiovanni, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli

6 October 2021

sera tela, New Series

Bloomsbury Academic have announced a new series, to be edited by Marco Formisano, sera tela – Studies in Late Antique Literature and Its Reception, ‘a transdisciplinary adventure that focuses on the novelty and radical otherness of late-antique literature and culture’.

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22 March 2021

The Roman Emperor in Speech and Word

Jan Willem Drijvers and Meaghan McEvoy have edited a special issue of the Journal of Late Antiquity: ‘Envisioning the Roman Emperor in Speech and Word in Late Antiquity’, vol. 14.1, Spring 2021.

13 November 2018

Gestalten der Spätantike

Im Rahmen der AG Spätantike wird im Wintersemester 2018/19 folgende Lehrveranstaltung angeboten:

Lateinische Spätantike: Gestalten der Spätantike
Kämpferische Kirchenväter, dichtende Frauen, Päpste, Kaiser und Philosophen: unser Bild der Spätantike wird durch das Wirken und die Werke herausragender Persönlichkeiten geprägt. Das von der Arbeitsgruppe Spätantike veranstaltete Seminar stellt einige von ihnen vor. Daran beteiligt sind Fachleute unterschiedlicher Disziplinen in Erlangen, aber das Seminar wird durch Beiträge auswärtiger Gelehrter aus Deutschland, Italien und Österreich ergänzt.
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29 Januar 2019 Maria Jennifer Falcone (Klassische Philologie, Erlangen), Sidonius Apollinaris: Intertextueller Horizont und Fortleben
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2 September 2018

Joint Field Work on Late Antiquity

Study day of the Universities of Montreal and Bologna.

Beatrice Girotti (Bologna) speaks on ‘Les capitales et les villes “insoutenables”, “soutenables” et “durables”. Quelques exemples de l’Antiquité tardive – le cas de Sidonius Apollinaire’

Programme part 1 part 2

24 August 2018

ATEG VI: Antiquité tardive en Gaule

Session 1: Cultural, social, and religious transformations

Session 2: Territorial developments in Late Antiquity

Session 3: Economy and material culture

As for Sidonius, Fabrizio Oppedisano will speak about ‘Sidoine Apollinaire et la legatio Arverna (467 ap. J.-C.)’.

14 July 2018

Transformations of Romanness

Edited by Walter Pohl and others, a multi-author volume on Romanness in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages has come out: Transformations of Romanness: Early Medieval Regions and Identities. Ralph Mathisen contributes a chapter on Gaul: ‘“Roman” Identity in Late Antiquity, with Special Attention to Gaul’.

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11 July 2018

The Latest on Late Epistolography

Edited by Gernot Michael Müller, a multi-author volume on Latin epistolography in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages has come out: Zwischen Alltagskommunikation und literarischer Identitätsbildung. Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser contributes a chapter on Sidonius: ‘Vom Epulonenschmaus zum Fest der Worte’.

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