Cyprus Conference on Letters by Rulers

Chiara Di Serio and Margot Neger (neger.margot AT ucy.ac.cy) have organised an international conference on ‘Letters and Authority: The Epistolary Communication of Rulers and Religious Leaders in Antiquity and the Middle Ages’. Date: 29-30 May 2026. Venue: University of Cyprus,…

Neger Speaks on Ep. 3.12

On 10 December, Margot Neger is to speak on Ep. 3.12 at the University of Gießen. Source Gießener Anzeiger, 05.12.2024: Interaktion zwischen Brief und Versinschrift Gießen (red). Das Institut für Altertumswissenschaften der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen lädt für Dienstag, 10. Dezember, ab…

Neger on Letter and Epigram (Ep. 4.11, 8.11)

Margot Neger, ‘Brief und Epigramm in den Nachrufen auf Literaten bei Sidonius Apollinaris (Epist. 4,11 und 8,11)’, in: Thorsten Fögen and Nina Mindt (eds), Brief und Epigramm, Berlin: De Gruyter, 229-58. View catalogue

Workshop ‘Mixing Prose and Verse’

On 22 October, Margot Neger will be organising a workshop on mixing prose and verse in late antique literature. She herself is to speak on “Prose letter and verse epitaph: Sidonius Apollinaris on the violation of his grandfather’s tomb (Ep.…

Habilitation Margot Neger

Margot Neger has made her Habilitationskolloquium at the University of Salzburg on 3 May 2019. Its title was: ‘Spätantike Nachrufe auf Literaten: Die Gedichte des Sidonius Apollinaris auf Claudianus Mamertus und den Rhetor Lampridius (Epist. 4,11,6 und 8,11,3)’. Her Habilitationsschrift…