In Historische Zeitschrift 319(2), Veronika Egetenmeyr just published a review of Giulia Marolla, Sidonius. Letters Book 5, Part 1. Text, Translation, and Commentary, Edinburgh 2023.
‘Giulia Marolla hat mit ihrer Arbeit <...> einen bedeutenden Beitrag zur Sidoniusforschung geleistet. Besonders der Kommentar besticht durch eine exzellente Recherche sowie eine übersichtliche Gestaltung.’
Laurent Ripart, ‘The bipolar organisation of early Lerinian monasticism’, at the Ewa Wipszycka Warsaw Late Antique Seminar, 3 October.
Giulia Marolla, ‘”Artigli di sfinge” e “spire di serpente”. Due casi di vituperatio nell’epistolario di Sidonio Apollinare’, at the Giornate di studi Pisa, 17-18 October.
Coming soon, the international conference ‘The Making of the Author: Self-Fashioning in Letter Collections Across the Mediterranean (4th-14th c.)’. Giulia Marolla will give a paper on Sidonius: ‘Authorial self-fashioning and editorial designs in Sidonius’ letter collection’.
4-6 September 2024, University of Vienna, Faculty of Protestant Theology
Convenor: Madalina Toca (madalina.toca AT univie.ac.at).
Alessandro Fo reviews Giulia Marolla’s commentary on book 5, part 1, of the Correspondence in FuturoClassico 9 (2023) 251-59.
‘… la ricchezza della trattazione …’
‘… la novità di molti suoi approcci …’
‘… il rigore metodologico …’
‘… la lettura di queste pagine critiche perfino, a volte, avvincente.’
Invitation to the presentation of Stefania Santelia’s and Giulia Marolla’s recent commentaries
Venue: University of Bari Aldo Moro, Palazzo Ateneo, Aula Magna
Date, time: 30 October 2023, 15:30 h.
Download poster here
Arturo De Vivo (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II – Scuola Superiore Meridionale) will present the volume:
— Sidonio Apollinare: Carmina Minora. Testo, traduzione e note a cura di Stefania Santelia. Saggio introduttivo di Silvia Condorelli
Gavin Kelly (University of Edinburgh) presents the volume:
— Sidonius: Letters Book 5, Part 1. Text, Translation and Commentary by Giulia Marolla
Further explanation by the authors. Chair: Rosa Alba Dimundo.
Published online in Mnemosyne: Giulia Marolla, ‘The Names of Sidonius’ Addressees and the Manuscript Tradition of the Letters’.
Out now, in Edinburgh Studies in Later Latin Literature, Giulia Marolla’s commentary on Sidonius Letters Book 5, Part 1. It covers the first half of this book from a philological, literary and historical perspective:
— providing the first commentary on Book 5 of Sidonius’ Letters
— including a newly edited Latin text and a new English translation
— contributing to an overall understanding of Sidonius’ literary output as a whole
— offering a comprehensive and innovative study of key historical data, especially prosopography and dating of the letters.
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Just out in first view: Giulia Marolla, ‘Who Was Sidonius’ Correspondent Simplicius? An Identification Problem in the Letters’, Classical Quarterly FirstView 30.03.2023.
Abstract
This article presents, as a case study, the various inconsistencies which occur in the prosopographical entries concerning Simplicius, one of Sidonius’ most frequent addressees. Through the exegesis of passages of letters addressed to him (Epist. 3.11, 4.4, 4.7, 4.12, 5.4) and of passages believed to concern him (Carm. 24.89; Epist. 2.9 and 5.7), it argues for a revision of the common identification of Simplicius as brother of Apollinaris and Thaumastus, and for a re-evaluation of the sources which supposedly lead to this conclusion. Some cautionary remarks on the unchecked use of prosopography as a tool are followed by a hypothesis concerning the identity of this addressee of Sidonius.
The Classics Department of Edinburgh University has announced its research seminars for the first half of 2023. For Sidonius and late antique Gaul they include:
Wednesday 8 Feb, 5.10, Teviot Lecture Theatre
Giulia Marolla (Bari) Four Burgundian kings in fifth-century Gaul? The case of Sidonius Ep. 5.7.
Thursday 18 May, 2.10, Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre
Adrastos Omissi (Glasgow) Late Roman Italy, late Roman Gaul: their strategic and geographic relationship
These are hybrid lectures. Please contact Dr Ben Harriman (Benjamin.Harriman [at] ed.ac.uk) for the link; please also contact him if you wish to be added to the seminar mailing list.
Seminar organisers: Ben Harriman, Gavin Kelly
