Gavin Kelly and Giulia Marolla write on ‘Letter Collections and Epistolary Networks’ in Horster et al., Brill’s Companion to Roman Prosopography, Brill: Leiden, 2025, 476-96.
Tag: prosopography
Brill’s Companion to Roman Prosopography
Just out: Marietta Horster, Richard Flower, Frédéric Hurlet and Ralph Mathisen (eds), Brill’s Companion to Roman Prosopography, Brill: Leiden, 2025.
Prosopography of Sidonius’ Family
Marc Bouiron and Christian Settipani, ‘Puissants laïcs et religieux: continuité aristocratique en Provence (Ve-VIIIe siècle)’, Archéopage, special issue ‘Des Gaulois aux Carolingiens dans le sud de la France’ (2025) 254-68.
- online in open access
- info: prosopography of Sidonius’ family in section 19; he is also mentioned passim
Marolla Commentary Letters 5/1
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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Marolla Identifies Simplicius
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.