11e colloque international L’épistolaire antique et ses prolongements européens
Étienne Wolff (Paris Nanterre) speaks on ‘Liberté de ton et plaisanterie dans la correspondance de Sidoine Apollinaire’
11e colloque international L’épistolaire antique et ses prolongements européens
Étienne Wolff (Paris Nanterre) speaks on ‘Liberté de ton et plaisanterie dans la correspondance de Sidoine Apollinaire’
Sidonius’ famous motto “Well aware that one’s thoughts are exposed in a letter collection like a face in a mirror” guides Luciana Furbetta’s recently published article (going back to a 2014 conference) on the concept of a letter as a mirror of self in his correspondence.
See the website Bibliography, tab 2018.
Conference: Brief und Epigramm: Bezüge und Wechselwirkungen zwischen zwei Textsorten in Antike und Mittelalter
Judith Hindermann (Universität Basel)
Grabepigramm und Trauerbrief: Plinius der Jüngere, Ausonius und Sidonius Apollinaris
Margot Neger (Universität Salzburg)
Epigrammatische Einlagen in den Nachrufen auf Literaten bei Sidonius Apollinaris (Epist. 4.11 und 8.11)
Matthijs Zoeter has obtained his Master’s Degree cum laude at Radboud University, Nijmegen, with “Reading the Future, Writing the Present: A Literary and Interpretive Commentary on Sidonius Apollinaris Letter 8.11”. It can be downloaded from this website, page Contributions.
Sara Fascione, ‘The reception of Symmachus in Sidonius Apollinaris’ letters’
Hungary’s most prominent Sidonius scholar, Ágnes Horváth (Szeged), has kindly revised her translations of Letters Books 4 and 7, and of Ep. 9.13, for publication on the Sidonius website.
SIDONIUS APOLLINARIS: EPISTOLAE
Az Epistolae IV. és VII. könyvének, valamint az Ep. IX. 13. levél fordítása
Translation of Epistolae Books IV and VII, and Ep. IX. 13.
Fordította: T. Horváth Ágnes
Translated: Agnes T. Horvath
Download the translations on the Contributions page.
Camille Bonnan-Garçon (Lyon) writes about Sidonius’ favourable image of Theodoric and about the changing roles of letters and panegyrics for praising monarchs in Interférences 11, 2018. She has just finished her doctoral dissertation: ‘L’épigramme et la lettre d’Ausone à Ennode de Pavie: étude stylistique, littéraire et historique d’une contiguïté générique dans l’antiquité tardive’, doctoral thesis June 2018 (supervisors Marie Ledentu and Bruno Bureau, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3).
Veronika Egetenmeyer has handed in her doctoral dissertation (Kiel): ‘Die Konstruktion des “Anderen”: Barbarenbilder in den Briefen des Sidonius Apollinaris’, to be defended in November.