Joop van Waarden is to give a lecture at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa on performance aspects of the Panegyric of Anthemius.
Title: ‘A Ceremony Embodied: Experiencing Anthemius’ Panegyric’
Date and time: Thursday 15 April, 16:00-18:00 CEST
Mode: distance. Everybody is welcome. In order to participate, send an email requesting to be included in the Teams group to Fabrizio Oppedisano: fabrizio.oppedisano@sns.it.
On 26 February, 16:00 CET, the Istituto italiano per la storia antica will relay via Facebook:
Poesia, potere e la fine di un impero. Il Panegirico di Antemio
Fabrizio Oppedisano talks to Franca Ela Consolino, Marco Onorato, and Umberto Roberto. Moderator Pierfrancesco Porena.
Fabrizio Oppedisano rounds off his Anthemius project with the publication of a diptych consisting of a monograph on the Panegyric of Anthemius (see previous post) and a multi-author volume of essays: Procopio Antemio, imperatore di Roma, Bari: Edipuglia, 2020.
On 29 June, Marco Formisano and Fabrizio Oppedisano will discuss Sidonius’ Carmen 1 in the online series Titubanti testi: Binomio di lettura. To participate, drop Marco an email at marco.formisano@ugent.be. Here is the programme of the series (new speakers are welcome from September):
In print: Fabrizio Oppedisano’s edition with translation and commentary of the Panegyric of Anthemius: In lode di Antemio: L’ultimo panegirico di Roma imperiale, Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider.
See the catalogue
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.)’.
At the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Fabrizio Oppedisano is running a project on the emperor Anthemius. On 8 June, a symposium was held on the subject (see flyer). The project also includes a translation and commentary of Sidonius’ Panegyric (Carm. 1-2), to be published next year.
