Sidonius Apollinaris: Selected Letters now has its own page in the ‘Publications’ section of the Propylaeum portal ‘Sidonius Apollinaris’, which carries on the sidonapol.org initiative.
This page, among other things, features an overview of the letters selected for the book and a useful ‘Updates and corrections‘ paragraph, like the other publications comprised in the ‘Publications’ section: Writing to Survive, New Approaches and the Companion.
Joop van Waarden’s ‘Green & Yellow’ Sidonius Apollinaris: Selected Letters is published. There is a 20% discount on this title expiring 31 March, code JOOP2026. For more information, and to order visit the Cambridge catalogue, entering the code at checkout.
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Inevitably, this is also the start of a list of Addenda et corrigenda
Page 59 2nd para, line 11: add another closing parenthesis after “Intro 4.1)”.
Page 73 lemma Litteras tuas Romae positus accepi, add: “right from the start, hints at Hor. Sat. 1.5.1 accepit … Roma“.
Page 76 lines 9-10 delete “but the Peutingeriana does not indicate a postal road”.
Page 79 lemma largum suspirata proximitas, line 4: read Cremonae instead of Cremona.
Page 85 lemma triumphalibus apostolorum liminibus affusus, keyword limen, add: “cf. Hor. Sat. 1.5.99 limine sacro: whereas Horace parades his disbelief, Sidonius does the opposite”.
On 23 February 2026, Radboud University will present the new commentary by Joop van Waarden on a selection of the letters of Sidonius. The work will appear in Cambridge University Press’s “Green and Yellow” series. The first copy will be presented to Professor Daniël den Hengst (emeritus, University of Amsterdam). Professor Gavin Kelly (University of Edinburgh) will provide an introduction, while Professor Giulia Marolla (Pegaso University) is to present a sample of her latest Sidonius research.
Venue: Huize Heyendael (“Het Kasteeltje”), Geert Grooteplein Noord 9, Nijmegen. Time: 4 – 6 p.m., including a reception. All welcome as long as there is room. Kindly RSVP to joop.vanwaarden@ru.nl. It will also be possible to join via Teams: registration at the same email address.
Now also in print: Joop van Waarden, ‘The Death and Public Rehabilitation of Apollinaris the Elder: Intertextuality with Lucan in Sidonius Apollinaris, Epist. 3.12’, CQ 74 (2024) 309-14.
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Joop van Waarden comes up with a new allusion to Pompey’s tomb in Lucan, shedding light on the death of Sidonius’ grandfather: ‘The Death and Public Rehabilitation of Apollinaris the Elder: Intertextuality with Lucan in Sidonius Apollinaris, Epist. 3.12’, CQ FirstView 30 April 2024.
Read here in open access
Henning Ohst reviews Joop van Waarden’s Mnemosyne article ‘Leafing Through Pliny With Sidonius’ in Forum Classicum 66 (2023) 62-64.
In Sara Fascione’s volume Reading Ancient Latin Letter Collections, Joop van Waarden contributes a chapter entitled ‘The proportions of Latin letter collections: A probe’ (pp. 61-74). This is a sequel to Gibson & Morrison’s chapter ‘Patterns of Arrangement in Greco-Roman Letter Collections’ in the same volume:
‘As Roy Gibson introduced the Ancient Letter Collections project at the conference and expounded his idea of the Augustan poetry book having been seminal for the proportions of Latin letter collections, it occurred to me that a detailed wordcount might finetune our insight into the parameters that mattered for the editors (the authors or later caretakers) of these collections.’
This chapter comes with a complete digital set of calculations and graphs. Download this set here.
Sara Fascione has published a volume of conference papers: Concatenantur sibi epistulae nostrae. Reading Ancient Latin Letter Collections (23-24 September 2021), Echo 38, Foggia: Il Castello Edizioni, 2022.
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Sidonius’ correspondence is among the collections analysed by Joop van Waarden in ‘The proportions of Latin letter collections: A probe’, pp. 61-74. Download the accompanying digital set of calculations and graphs.
Joop van Waarden has reviewed Filomena Giannotti’s Scrinia Arverna in CR First View 2022.
As part of the Celtic Conference (Lyon, 18-21 July), a panel, organised by Scott DiGiulio and Dominic Machado, will convene on “Poeticis magis decora? Latin Prose and the Limits of Intertextuality”. Joop van Waarden will be speaking on “Sidonius’ Journey to Rome at Ockham’s Razor’s Edge”.
Full programme on the conference website.
