Transcription Lütjohann Revised

Joop van Waarden has revised his transcription of the Epistulae and Carmina in Lütjohann’s edition. It is freely available at the Propylaeum Portal on the Sidonius Apollinaris: Lütjohann’s Text page. Corrections are based on a comparison, powered by Anthropic Claude…

Portal for the Selected Letters

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…

Sidonius Selected Letters is Out

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. Download…

Launching the Sidonius Commentary

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…

Van Waarden on Lucan in Sidonius

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. Go to CQ open access

Van Waarden on a New Allusion to Lucan

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…

Ohst Reviews Van Waarden

Henning Ohst reviews Joop van Waarden’s Mnemosyne article ‘Leafing Through Pliny With Sidonius’ in Forum Classicum 66 (2023) 62-64.

Proportions of Latin Letter Collections

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…

Fascione Reading Latin Letter Collections

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. View the Introduction and ToC Sidonius’ correspondence is among the collections analysed…