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Research paper thumbnail of The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris, Edinburgh 2020

The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris, 2020

A multidisciplinary survey of Sidonius Apollinaris and his works - First ever comprehensive ... more A multidisciplinary survey of Sidonius Apollinaris and his works

- First ever comprehensive research tool for Sidonius Apollinaris
- Assembles leading international specialists on Sidonius and his age
- Offers an assessment of past and currernt research in the field
- Comprehensive bibliography includes all the scholarly literature on Sidonius
- Supplemented by the regularly updated Sidonius website www.sidonapol.org

Sidonius Apollinaris, c.430 – c.485, poet and letter-writer, aristocrat, administrator and bishop, is one of the most distinct voices to survive from Late Antiquity and an eyewitness of the end of Roman power in the west.

The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris is the first work of its kind, giving a full account of all aspects of his life and works and surveying past and current scholarship as well as new developments in research. This substantial and significant work of scholarship is divided into six thematic sections covering his social, political, linguistic, literary and prosopographical context as well as extensive new scholarship on the manuscript tradition and history of reception.

This interdisciplinary book combines the utility of a key research tool for the study of Sidonius with a significant offering of wholly new scholarly research.

Research paper thumbnail of Writing to Survive. A Commentary on Sidonius Apollinaris, Letters Book 7. Volume 2: The Ascetic Letters 12-18, LAHR 14, Leuven 2016

Asceticism, and the antidote it offers to contemporary secular disappointments in fifth-century G... more Asceticism, and the antidote it offers to contemporary secular disappointments in fifth-century Gaul, is the central theme in the second part of Book 7 of Sidonius Apollinaris' correspondence. Addressing a state of ferment in which the closely-knit Gallo-Roman elite is shifting its moral and religious parameters along with its political certainties, these letters only reveal their full significance - this commentary claims - when read as ascetic documents mirroring the mentality of the monks of Lérins.

This second volume of Writing to Survive follows the first (LAHR 2) in scope and method, providing detailed philological underpinning as well as a wealth of thematic research. Together, these two volumes constitute an important contribution towards the comprehensive range of commentaries on Sidonius' work planned by the 'Sidonius Apollinaris for the Twenty-First Century' project for publication in the LAHR series.

Like its companion volume, this work will be of interest to classicists and medievalists, to literary scholars and church historians, to those concerned with philological and historical intricacies and those interested in the broader development of literature and mentalities in Late Antiquity.

Research paper thumbnail of Johannes A. van Waarden and Gavin Kelly (eds), New Approaches to Sidonius Apollinaris, Leuven 2013

A landmark in the SAxxi project, this integrated and international collection of essays explores ... more A landmark in the SAxxi project, this integrated and international collection of essays explores the potential for a complete commentary on Sidonius' works, starting with a retrospective on Sidonius scholarship up to the present, and then focusing in turn on his verse and his prose. The strangeness of his poetry triggers a critical contemporary assessment and a proposal for better understanding through the theory of Cultural Memory; there follow case studies of the panegyrics and of poems within the letters, and examinations of his intertextuality with Horace and Claudian. Research into Sidonius’ prose is represented by two contrasting essays on the composition of the letter collection, by a demonstration of how Sidonius constructs history to create contemporary identity, and by a groundbreaking chapter applying text linguistics to the letters. An appendix fills a significant scholarly lacuna with Helga Köhler’s indices to her commentary on Letters, Book 1 (Heidelberg, 1995). This book will be important for both literary and historical scholars of the late Roman world, for both Classicists and Medievalists.

Research paper thumbnail of Daniël den Hengst, 	  Emperors and Historiography, Collected Essays on the Literature of the Roman Empire, edited by Diederik Burgersdijk and Joop van Waarden, Mnemosyne Supplements 319, Leiden 2010

Research paper thumbnail of (ed.) Emperors and Historiography: Collected Essays on the Literature of the Roman Empire by Daniël den Hengst

Mnemosyne Supplements 319, 2010

In this collection of essays Roman historical and biographical texts are studied from a literary ... more In this collection of essays Roman historical and biographical texts are studied from a literary point of view. The main interest of the author, Daniël den Hengst, professor emeritus of Latin at the University of Amsterdam, concerns the development of Roman historiography, the ways in which Roman historians present their work and the intertextual relations between these works and other literary genres. Special attention is given to the Historia Augusta and Ammianus Marcellinus, but also authors from the classical period, such as Cicero, Livy and Suetonius and their ideas about historiography are discussed. The articles demonstrate that a detailed interpretation of these texts in the original language is indispensable to understanding the aims and methods of ancient historians and biographers.

Research paper thumbnail of Writing to Survive. A Commentary on Sidonius Apollinaris, Letters Book 7. Volume 1: The Episcopal Letters 1-11, LAHR 2, Leuven 2010

Articles/Chapters by Joop van Waarden

Research paper thumbnail of The Death and Public Rehabilitation of Apollinaris the Elder: Intertextuality with Lucan in Sidonius Apollinaris, Epist. 3.12

Classical Quarterly, 2024

Sidonius Apollinaris’ Epist. 3.12 tells how one day, while leaving Lyons, he caught a couple of g... more Sidonius Apollinaris’ Epist. 3.12 tells how one day, while leaving Lyons, he caught a couple of gravediggers about to violate his grandfather Apollinaris’ grave, which had become unrecognizable over time. He instructs the addressee, his nephew Secundus, to restore the tomb mound and provide it with a stone for which he attaches the text. Whereas this letter is usually interpreted as a piece of self-promotion by the author for his filial piety and expert storytelling, this article suggests that there is a significant subtext to be found in Lucan's Pharsalia which makes the letter first and foremost a rehabilitation of Apollinaris while strongly suggesting that the latter was executed. There follow some rather more tentative thoughts trying to grasp the precise critical moment in time for this rehabilitation. It is argued that this could be Sidonius’ departure for Clermont, in 469/470 to take on the episcopate, after his term as City Prefect of Rome and a stay in Lyons with Bishop Patiens. The letter is aimed at bolstering family cohesion in the conflict of interests between Auvergne and Provence and at securing Sidonius’ position as incumbent bishop.

Research paper thumbnail of A Gentleman Weighs his “You” and “I”: Inclusion in the Letters of Faustus, Mamertus Claudianus, Ruricius, Avitus and Ennodius

Tabea L. Meurer and Veronika Egetenmeyr (eds), Gallia docta? Education and In-/Exclusion in Late Antique Gaul, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 91-115, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of The Proportions of Latin Letter Collections: A Probe

Sara Fascione (ed.), Concatenantur sibi epistulae nostrae. Reading Ancient Latin Letter Collections (23-24 September 2021), Echo 38, Foggia: Il Castello Edizioni, 2022, pp. 57-70, 2022

Features Cicero, Seneca, Pliny, Symmachus, Sidonius, Ruricius, Avitus, and, for comparison, Vergi... more Features Cicero, Seneca, Pliny, Symmachus, Sidonius, Ruricius, Avitus, and, for comparison, Vergil, Horace, Propertius, Ovid and Statius. This is a sequel to Gibson & Morrison's chapter 'Patterns of Arrangement in Greco-Roman Letter Collections' in the same volume.

Comes with a full digital set of calculations and charts, freely downloadable at https://sidonapol.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Van-Waarden_Proportions-Latin-Letter-Collections_Package.zip

Research paper thumbnail of Symmachus and the Metamorphosis of 'You and I' in Epistolary Usage

Metamorfosi del Classico in età romanobarbarica, 2021

Epistolary politeness is paramount in the long fifth century in Italy and Gaul. An important mean... more Epistolary politeness is paramount in the long fifth century in Italy and Gaul. An important means is the proper wielding of 'You and I': ego/nos, tu/vos. To this end, the classical paradigm, found in Cicero’s letters, is restructured to enable shaping foreground and background, nearness and distance. Symmachus is among the first representatives of this metamorphosis.

Research paper thumbnail of Sidonius Apollinaris Leafing Through Pliny the Younger: Sidon. Ep. 1.1, Plin. Ep. 1.1, 1.2, and 1.5, and Satire

Research paper thumbnail of Das Sidonius- und das Kontingenz-Projekt im Spiegel der Theorie

M. Becher and H. Hess (eds), Kontingenzerfahrungen und ihre Bewältigung zwischen imperium und regna. Beispiele aus Gallien und angrenzenden Gebieten vom 5. bis zum 8. Jahrhundert, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2021, 29-49. , 2021

Research paper thumbnail of The Emergence of the Gallic Rogations in a Cognitive Perspective

Nienke M. Vos and Albert C. Geljon (eds), Rituals in Early Christianity: New Perspectives on Tradition and Transformation, 2020

In Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 164, Leiden: Brill, 2020, 201-20

Research paper thumbnail of Rutilius Namatianus' Vividness: Cognition and Intertextuality

Rutilius Namatianus, aristocrate païen en voyage et poète, 2020

In: Rutilius Namatianus, aristocrate païen en voyage et poète, textes réunis et édités par Étienn... more In: Rutilius Namatianus, aristocrate païen en voyage et poète, textes réunis et édités par Étienne Wolff, Scripta Antiqua 131, Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2020, 215-228

Research paper thumbnail of Fifty Years of Sidonius Scholarship in the Mirror

Lo specchio del modello, 2020

In: Anita Di Stefano and Marco Onorato (eds), Lo specchio del modello: Orizzonti intertestuali e ... more In: Anita Di Stefano and Marco Onorato (eds), Lo specchio del modello: Orizzonti intertestuali e Fortleben di Sidonio Apollinare, Studi Latini 94, Naples: Paolo Loffredo, 2020, 461-480

Research paper thumbnail of Amicitia, Otium, and the Chronotope of Sidonius's Correspondence

Journal of Late Antiquity, 2020

In Harich-Schwarzbauer, Henriette, and Judith Hindermann (eds), ʻLeisure and the Muses in Sidoniu... more In Harich-Schwarzbauer, Henriette, and Judith Hindermann (eds), ʻLeisure and the Muses in Sidonius Apollinarisʼ, special issue of Journal of Late Antiquity 13, 1 (2020) 149-72

Research paper thumbnail of Prose Rhythm in Sidonius

The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris, 2020

Pages 462-475

Research paper thumbnail of Sidonius' Reception: Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries

The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris, 2020

Pages 686-704

Research paper thumbnail of 'You' and 'I' in Sidonius' Correspondence

The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris, 2020

Pages 418-439

Research paper thumbnail of Sidonius' Biography in Photo Negative

The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris, 2020

Pages 13-28

Research paper thumbnail of The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris, Edinburgh 2020

The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris, 2020

A multidisciplinary survey of Sidonius Apollinaris and his works - First ever comprehensive ... more A multidisciplinary survey of Sidonius Apollinaris and his works

- First ever comprehensive research tool for Sidonius Apollinaris
- Assembles leading international specialists on Sidonius and his age
- Offers an assessment of past and currernt research in the field
- Comprehensive bibliography includes all the scholarly literature on Sidonius
- Supplemented by the regularly updated Sidonius website www.sidonapol.org

Sidonius Apollinaris, c.430 – c.485, poet and letter-writer, aristocrat, administrator and bishop, is one of the most distinct voices to survive from Late Antiquity and an eyewitness of the end of Roman power in the west.

The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris is the first work of its kind, giving a full account of all aspects of his life and works and surveying past and current scholarship as well as new developments in research. This substantial and significant work of scholarship is divided into six thematic sections covering his social, political, linguistic, literary and prosopographical context as well as extensive new scholarship on the manuscript tradition and history of reception.

This interdisciplinary book combines the utility of a key research tool for the study of Sidonius with a significant offering of wholly new scholarly research.

Research paper thumbnail of Writing to Survive. A Commentary on Sidonius Apollinaris, Letters Book 7. Volume 2: The Ascetic Letters 12-18, LAHR 14, Leuven 2016

Asceticism, and the antidote it offers to contemporary secular disappointments in fifth-century G... more Asceticism, and the antidote it offers to contemporary secular disappointments in fifth-century Gaul, is the central theme in the second part of Book 7 of Sidonius Apollinaris' correspondence. Addressing a state of ferment in which the closely-knit Gallo-Roman elite is shifting its moral and religious parameters along with its political certainties, these letters only reveal their full significance - this commentary claims - when read as ascetic documents mirroring the mentality of the monks of Lérins.

This second volume of Writing to Survive follows the first (LAHR 2) in scope and method, providing detailed philological underpinning as well as a wealth of thematic research. Together, these two volumes constitute an important contribution towards the comprehensive range of commentaries on Sidonius' work planned by the 'Sidonius Apollinaris for the Twenty-First Century' project for publication in the LAHR series.

Like its companion volume, this work will be of interest to classicists and medievalists, to literary scholars and church historians, to those concerned with philological and historical intricacies and those interested in the broader development of literature and mentalities in Late Antiquity.

Research paper thumbnail of Johannes A. van Waarden and Gavin Kelly (eds), New Approaches to Sidonius Apollinaris, Leuven 2013

A landmark in the SAxxi project, this integrated and international collection of essays explores ... more A landmark in the SAxxi project, this integrated and international collection of essays explores the potential for a complete commentary on Sidonius' works, starting with a retrospective on Sidonius scholarship up to the present, and then focusing in turn on his verse and his prose. The strangeness of his poetry triggers a critical contemporary assessment and a proposal for better understanding through the theory of Cultural Memory; there follow case studies of the panegyrics and of poems within the letters, and examinations of his intertextuality with Horace and Claudian. Research into Sidonius’ prose is represented by two contrasting essays on the composition of the letter collection, by a demonstration of how Sidonius constructs history to create contemporary identity, and by a groundbreaking chapter applying text linguistics to the letters. An appendix fills a significant scholarly lacuna with Helga Köhler’s indices to her commentary on Letters, Book 1 (Heidelberg, 1995). This book will be important for both literary and historical scholars of the late Roman world, for both Classicists and Medievalists.

Research paper thumbnail of Daniël den Hengst, 	  Emperors and Historiography, Collected Essays on the Literature of the Roman Empire, edited by Diederik Burgersdijk and Joop van Waarden, Mnemosyne Supplements 319, Leiden 2010

Research paper thumbnail of (ed.) Emperors and Historiography: Collected Essays on the Literature of the Roman Empire by Daniël den Hengst

Mnemosyne Supplements 319, 2010

In this collection of essays Roman historical and biographical texts are studied from a literary ... more In this collection of essays Roman historical and biographical texts are studied from a literary point of view. The main interest of the author, Daniël den Hengst, professor emeritus of Latin at the University of Amsterdam, concerns the development of Roman historiography, the ways in which Roman historians present their work and the intertextual relations between these works and other literary genres. Special attention is given to the Historia Augusta and Ammianus Marcellinus, but also authors from the classical period, such as Cicero, Livy and Suetonius and their ideas about historiography are discussed. The articles demonstrate that a detailed interpretation of these texts in the original language is indispensable to understanding the aims and methods of ancient historians and biographers.

Research paper thumbnail of Writing to Survive. A Commentary on Sidonius Apollinaris, Letters Book 7. Volume 1: The Episcopal Letters 1-11, LAHR 2, Leuven 2010

Research paper thumbnail of The Death and Public Rehabilitation of Apollinaris the Elder: Intertextuality with Lucan in Sidonius Apollinaris, Epist. 3.12

Classical Quarterly, 2024

Sidonius Apollinaris’ Epist. 3.12 tells how one day, while leaving Lyons, he caught a couple of g... more Sidonius Apollinaris’ Epist. 3.12 tells how one day, while leaving Lyons, he caught a couple of gravediggers about to violate his grandfather Apollinaris’ grave, which had become unrecognizable over time. He instructs the addressee, his nephew Secundus, to restore the tomb mound and provide it with a stone for which he attaches the text. Whereas this letter is usually interpreted as a piece of self-promotion by the author for his filial piety and expert storytelling, this article suggests that there is a significant subtext to be found in Lucan's Pharsalia which makes the letter first and foremost a rehabilitation of Apollinaris while strongly suggesting that the latter was executed. There follow some rather more tentative thoughts trying to grasp the precise critical moment in time for this rehabilitation. It is argued that this could be Sidonius’ departure for Clermont, in 469/470 to take on the episcopate, after his term as City Prefect of Rome and a stay in Lyons with Bishop Patiens. The letter is aimed at bolstering family cohesion in the conflict of interests between Auvergne and Provence and at securing Sidonius’ position as incumbent bishop.

Research paper thumbnail of A Gentleman Weighs his “You” and “I”: Inclusion in the Letters of Faustus, Mamertus Claudianus, Ruricius, Avitus and Ennodius

Tabea L. Meurer and Veronika Egetenmeyr (eds), Gallia docta? Education and In-/Exclusion in Late Antique Gaul, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 91-115, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of The Proportions of Latin Letter Collections: A Probe

Sara Fascione (ed.), Concatenantur sibi epistulae nostrae. Reading Ancient Latin Letter Collections (23-24 September 2021), Echo 38, Foggia: Il Castello Edizioni, 2022, pp. 57-70, 2022

Features Cicero, Seneca, Pliny, Symmachus, Sidonius, Ruricius, Avitus, and, for comparison, Vergi... more Features Cicero, Seneca, Pliny, Symmachus, Sidonius, Ruricius, Avitus, and, for comparison, Vergil, Horace, Propertius, Ovid and Statius. This is a sequel to Gibson & Morrison's chapter 'Patterns of Arrangement in Greco-Roman Letter Collections' in the same volume.

Comes with a full digital set of calculations and charts, freely downloadable at https://sidonapol.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Van-Waarden_Proportions-Latin-Letter-Collections_Package.zip

Research paper thumbnail of Symmachus and the Metamorphosis of 'You and I' in Epistolary Usage

Metamorfosi del Classico in età romanobarbarica, 2021

Epistolary politeness is paramount in the long fifth century in Italy and Gaul. An important mean... more Epistolary politeness is paramount in the long fifth century in Italy and Gaul. An important means is the proper wielding of 'You and I': ego/nos, tu/vos. To this end, the classical paradigm, found in Cicero’s letters, is restructured to enable shaping foreground and background, nearness and distance. Symmachus is among the first representatives of this metamorphosis.

Research paper thumbnail of Sidonius Apollinaris Leafing Through Pliny the Younger: Sidon. Ep. 1.1, Plin. Ep. 1.1, 1.2, and 1.5, and Satire

Research paper thumbnail of Das Sidonius- und das Kontingenz-Projekt im Spiegel der Theorie

M. Becher and H. Hess (eds), Kontingenzerfahrungen und ihre Bewältigung zwischen imperium und regna. Beispiele aus Gallien und angrenzenden Gebieten vom 5. bis zum 8. Jahrhundert, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2021, 29-49. , 2021

Research paper thumbnail of The Emergence of the Gallic Rogations in a Cognitive Perspective

Nienke M. Vos and Albert C. Geljon (eds), Rituals in Early Christianity: New Perspectives on Tradition and Transformation, 2020

In Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 164, Leiden: Brill, 2020, 201-20

Research paper thumbnail of Rutilius Namatianus' Vividness: Cognition and Intertextuality

Rutilius Namatianus, aristocrate païen en voyage et poète, 2020

In: Rutilius Namatianus, aristocrate païen en voyage et poète, textes réunis et édités par Étienn... more In: Rutilius Namatianus, aristocrate païen en voyage et poète, textes réunis et édités par Étienne Wolff, Scripta Antiqua 131, Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2020, 215-228

Research paper thumbnail of Fifty Years of Sidonius Scholarship in the Mirror

Lo specchio del modello, 2020

In: Anita Di Stefano and Marco Onorato (eds), Lo specchio del modello: Orizzonti intertestuali e ... more In: Anita Di Stefano and Marco Onorato (eds), Lo specchio del modello: Orizzonti intertestuali e Fortleben di Sidonio Apollinare, Studi Latini 94, Naples: Paolo Loffredo, 2020, 461-480

Research paper thumbnail of Amicitia, Otium, and the Chronotope of Sidonius's Correspondence

Journal of Late Antiquity, 2020

In Harich-Schwarzbauer, Henriette, and Judith Hindermann (eds), ʻLeisure and the Muses in Sidoniu... more In Harich-Schwarzbauer, Henriette, and Judith Hindermann (eds), ʻLeisure and the Muses in Sidonius Apollinarisʼ, special issue of Journal of Late Antiquity 13, 1 (2020) 149-72

Research paper thumbnail of Prose Rhythm in Sidonius

The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris, 2020

Pages 462-475

Research paper thumbnail of Sidonius' Reception: Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries

The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris, 2020

Pages 686-704

Research paper thumbnail of 'You' and 'I' in Sidonius' Correspondence

The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris, 2020

Pages 418-439

Research paper thumbnail of Sidonius' Biography in Photo Negative

The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris, 2020

Pages 13-28

Research paper thumbnail of "Il tempo invecchia in fretta”: la biografia di Sidonio Apollinare nella sua corrispondenza

Invigilata Lucernis, 2018

in Invigilata Lucernis 40 (2018) 187-98

Research paper thumbnail of Elogio dell'ambivalenza: le lettere ascetiche di Sidonio Apollinare tra abbandono e abbraccio del mondo

A paper given in honour of Prof. Salvatore Pricoco on the occasion of the publication of his late... more A paper given in honour of Prof. Salvatore Pricoco on the occasion of the publication of his latest book 'Eucherio. Elogio dell'eremo'. It explores the notion of ambivalence in order to explain the wide divergence of ascetic practices in fifth-century Gaul. Sidonius Apollinaris is used as a test case, ahead of the publication of Joop van Waarden, 'Writing to Survive', volume 2, which comments on Sidonius' 'ascetic' letters 7.12-18.

Research paper thumbnail of Signalementen: Plinius de Jongere

This article discusses three recent studies on the Letters of Pliny, including a biography (Winsb... more This article discusses three recent studies on the Letters of Pliny, including a biography (Winsbury, Pliny the Younger. A Life in Roman Letters), a commentary (Whitton, Pliny the Younger. 'Epistles' Book II), and a critical study (Gibson and Morello, Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger. An Introduction). It pays specific attention to recent interpretations of letter collections as structured unities.

Research paper thumbnail of Priscillian of Avila's Liber ad Damasum and the Inability to Handle a Conflict

A.C. Geljon & R. Roukema, Violence in Ancient Christianity. Victims and Perpetrators, Leiden: Brill: pp. 132-150, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of New Approaches Introduction: Sidonius in the 21st Century (sample)

Johannes A. van Waarden and Gavin Kelly (eds), New Approaches to Sidonius Apollinaris, Leuven, 2013, 3-19, Aug 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Sidonio Apollinare, poeta e vescovo

Vetera Christianorum 48 (2011) 99-113, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Filomena Giannotti, Scrinia Arverna: Studi su Sidonio Apollinare, Studi e testi di storia antica 29, Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2021

The Classical Review, 2023

This volume crowns 20 years of G.'s publishing activity on Sidonius Apollinaris, which includes l... more This volume crowns 20 years of G.'s publishing activity on Sidonius Apollinaris, which includes landmarks in commentary (Sperare meliora on Epist. 3 [2016]) and reception (‘Sidonius Reception: Late 19th to 21st Centuries’, in: Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris [2020]). It contains her most recent work combined with one early piece – revised in light of the latest developments wherever necessary. Chapters 1–7 deal with Sidonius’ oeuvre, Chapters 8–9 with his reception. In this way, Sidonius’ scrinia Arverna and their seven plus two books of letters are elegantly mirrored by the layout of G.'s own scrinia Senensia. A bird's-eye view of these chapters may give an impression of her lines of research and fine-grained strategy.

Research paper thumbnail of Michael P. Hanaghan, Reading Sidonius’ Epistles, Cambridge: CUP, 2019

Plekos 21, pp. 307-12, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Tim Denecker, Ideas on Language in Early Christianity. From Tertullian to Isidore of Seville, Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 142, Leiden: Brill, 2017

Vigiliae Christianae 73, pp. 341-45, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Nicholas Richardson, Prudentius' Hymns for Hours and Seasons: Liber Cathemerinon

Vigiliae Christianae, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Thomas Kuhn-Treichel, Die „Alethia“ des Claudius Marius Victorius: Bibeldichtung zwischen Epos und Lehrgedicht, Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte 123, Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2016

Vigiliae Christianae, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Marco Onorato, Il castone e la gemma: sulla tecnica poetica di Sidonio Apollinare, Naples: Paolo Loffredo, 2016

BMCR 2017.10.50, 2017

With this book, Sidonius Apollinaris, the mannerist poet, has found his congenial reader. In a da... more With this book, Sidonius Apollinaris, the mannerist poet, has found his congenial reader. In a dazzlingly detailed study of his poetry, Marco Onorato succeeds in creating an enthralling blueprint of its architecture, seen as a multilayer structure of atomizing details, accommodating rare words like gems. More than just matching the complexity of its subject, Onorato's analytic virtuosity plausibly recreates the conditions under which Sidonius' poetry could be meaningful and could indeed be a first-rate artistic achievement.

Research paper thumbnail of Salvatore Pricoco, Eucherio Elogio dell'eremo

Research paper thumbnail of Céline Urlacher-Becht, Ennode de Pavie, chantre officiel de l’Église de Milan (Collection des Études Augustiniennes. Série Antiquité 198), Turnhout, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Raphael Schwitter, Umbrosa lux. Obscuritas in der lateinischen Epistolographie der Spätantike, Stuttgart, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Helga Köhler, C. Sollius Apollinaris Sidonius, Die Briefe, Stuttgart 2014

Sidonius C. Sollius Apollinaris Sidonius, Die Briefe. Eingeleitet, übersetzt und erläutert von He... more Sidonius C. Sollius Apollinaris Sidonius, Die Briefe. Eingeleitet, übersetzt und erläutert von Helga Köhler, Stuttgart: Hiersemann 2014, XXXVII + 355 pp., ISBN 978-3-7772-1414-6, € 224 (hb). Die Briefe des Apollinaris Sidonius sind seit eh und je eine erstrangige Quelle für das Gallien des fünften Jahrhunderts und haben bis in den Humanismus hinein die europäische Literatur entscheidend beeinflusst. Als prototypi-sche Mischgestalt aus Aristokrat und Seelenhirt, römischem Präfekt und Bischof von Clermont, Hofpoet und liturgischem Autor ist Sidonius wesent-lich für unser Verständnis des spätantiken Christentums. Helga Köhler (K.) stellt ihn nun erstmals in einer mustergültigen Übersetzung seiner ganzen Korrespondenz dem deutschsprachigen Publikum vor. Dank ihrem wegwei-senden Kommentarband zum ersten Buch der Korrespondenz (Heidelberg 1995) ist K. eine der Urheberinnen der heutigen Sidonius-Renaissance. Das Buch enthält, neben der Übersetzung, eine Einleitung, eine Auswahl-Bibliographie und ein Namen-und Sachregister. Die Einleitung ist eine gekonnte, äußerst zugängliche Zusammenfassung unserer Kenntnis auf dem heutigen Stand der Wissenschaft. Binnen dreißig Seiten wird der Leser infor-miert über den Autor, seine Briefkunst und sein Nachleben. Zudem legt K. Rechenschaft ab über die Entscheidungen, die sie bei der Übersetzung getroffen hat. Einige, für die Übersetzung wichtige Aspekte möchte ich hier hervorheben. Die Sammlung von 147 Briefen in neun Büchern würdigt K. zu Recht als mehr als ein historisches Dokument, nämlich als ein sorgfältig angeleg-tes Gesamtkunstwerk aus Prosa und poetischen Einlagen, das Politik und Privatleben, Weltliches und Geistiges verbindet zu einem Kaleidoskop wech-selnder Stimmungen. Form und Sprache der Briefe stehen dabei stets gleich-rangig neben ihrem Informationsgehalt. Dem Stil des Sidonius gerecht zu werden war Hauptaufgabe dieser Über-setzung. Die sehr langen Perioden, die alle denkbaren Stil-und Gedankenfi-guren häufen, überforderten schon nachweisbar manche Zeitgenossen. K. hat sich für die weitestmögliche Nachbildung des Originals entschlossen, da die deutsche Syntax ja die Möglichkeit zu Schachtelsätzen bietet. Das Ergebnis ist eine vornehme, zuweilen leicht altertümliche, aber immer kristallklare Über-setzung. Die erfindungsreiche Wortwahl und der präzise Aufbau steuern den langen Atem, den der Leser braucht. Die Übersetzung wäre besonders dazu geeignet, vorgetragen zu werden. Bemerkenswert sind die poetischen Einla-gen, die K. virtuos gemäß der ursprünglichen Metren übersetzt.

Research paper thumbnail of Rémy Poignault and Annick Stoehr-Monjou (eds), Présence de Sidoine Apollinaire, Clermont-Ferrand, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Jesús Hernández Lobato, Vel Apolline muto. Estética y poética de la Antigüedad Tardía, Peter Lang: Bern, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Daniel Deerberg, Der Sturz des Judas. Kommentar (5,1-163) und Studien zur poetischen Erbauung bei Sedulius  (Orbis antiquus 43), Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2011

Vigiliae Christianae 66 (2012) 445-49, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Lisa K. Bailey, Christianity's Quiet Success. The Eusebius Gallicanus Sermon collection and the Power of the Church in Late Antique Gaul, Notre Dame, IN, 2010

Vigiliae Christianae 66 (2012) 106-108, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Silvia Condorelli, Il poeta doctus nel V secolo D.C. Aspetti della poetica di Sidonio Apollinare, Naples 2008

Mnemosyne 65 (2012) 156-58, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer and Petra Schierl (eds), Lateinische Poesie der Spätantike, Basel 2009

Classical Review 61 (2011) 159-62, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Ennode de Pavie, Lettres tome I, livres I et II, texte établi, traduit et commenté par Stéphane Gioanni, Paris, 2006

Vigiliae Christianae 61 (2007) 235-38, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Stefania Santelia, Per amare Eucheria: Anth.Lat. 386 SB, Bari, 2005

Eikasmós 18 (2007) 536-38, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Milène Wegmann, Naturwahrnehmung im Mittelalter im Spiegel der lateinischen Historiographie des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts, Bern, 2005

Mediaevistik 20 (2007) 395-97, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Late Latin Poetry in Dutch-Speaking Countries after WWII

REVISED FIFTH VERSION. This paper was presented at the public study day ‘Voices on Late Latin Poe... more REVISED FIFTH VERSION. This paper was presented at the public study day ‘Voices on Late Latin Poetry: European Scholarship in Context’, organized by Helen Kaufmann, at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, on 16 September 2016. It is here reproduced ‘as is’, S.E.&O., with some improvements for which I am grateful to Raphael Brendel, Franz Dolveck, Gavin Kelly, Francesco Lubian, and Vincent Zarini.

Research paper thumbnail of INVIGILATA LVCERNIS 2018 n. 40

INVIGILATA LVCERNIS 2018 n. 40, 2018

DESCRIZIONE Graziana Brescia Oleno e Letea. Destini di pietra nella fabula ovidiana di Orfeo Cl... more DESCRIZIONE

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Sara Fascione
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Andrea Favuzzi
Dionigi di Alicarnasso nel Lessico Suda: nuovi frammenti

Boris Kayachev
Ciris 478: an emendation

Mario Lentano
Adottare un antenato. Genealogie iconografiche da Roma antica alla prima età moderna

Ana Maria Lóio
Who’s that girl? A matter of gender in Statius’ Silvae 4,8

Grazia Maria Masselli
Leopardi vs Virgilio: il ‘caso’ Enea

Maria Stefania Montecalvo
Percorsi e fortuna della scienza greca nella Roma repubblicana

Alessia Maria Scalera
Il racconto ovidiano e la sua cornice: strategie diegetiche nell’episodio di Filemone e Bauci

Marisa Squillante
Vanescentium litterarum vestigia…

Annick Stoehr-Monjou
Le rôle du poète dans la Gaule du Ve siècle: Sidoine Apollinaire et son public

Luciano Traversa
Nec solum civis sed etiam amici officio revocor. Il dilemma di Brindisi nelle lettere ad Attico del 49

Joop Van Waarden
«Il tempo invecchia in fretta»: la biografia di Sidonio Apollinare nella sua corrispondenza

Étienne Wolff
Martial et les guerres civiles

Étienne Wolff
Qui était André Loyen, l’éditeur français de Sidoine Apollinaire?