2012

Barcellona, Rossana, Una società allo specchio: La Gallia tardoantica nei suoi concili, Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2012.

Bedon, Robert, ‘Les auteurs latins et le voyage thérapeutique: à la recherche d’une nature bienfaisante’, in: Christine de Buzon and Odile Richard-Pauchet (eds), Le corps et l’esprit en voyage: le voyage thérapeutique, Paris: Garnier, 2012, 17-44.

Callow, Chris, and Mary Harlow, ‘Left-over Romans: The Life Course in the Late Antique West’, in: Mary Harlow and Lena Larsson Lovén (eds), Families in the Roman and Late Antique World, London: Continuum, 2012.

  • info: Sidonius and his son Apollinaris as case studies, along with Paulinus of Pella

Camastra, Palma, Letteratura latina tardoantica, Bari: Edipuglia, 2012.

  • info: A history and anthology of late antique Latin literature from the third up to and including the eighth century, with a bibliography. Sidonius features on pp. 173-74, 344-45, and 399
  • review by Jean-Louis Charlet in AnTard 20 (2012) 448-51

Condorelli, Silvia, ‘Dal parassita della commedia all’impudicus di Sidonio Apollinare (Epist. 3,13,1-4)’, Paideia 67 (2012) 409-27.

  • info: French version in Poignault and Stoehr-Monjou, 2014, 227-43

Delaplace, Christine, ‘The So-Called “Conquest of the Auvergne” (469-75) in the History of the Visigothic Kingdom: Relations between the Roman Elites of Southern Gaul, the Central Imperial Power in Rome and the Military Authority of the Federates on the Periphery’, in: David Brakke et al. (eds), Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity, Farnham, 2012, 271-81.

  • info: ‘Delaplace’s re-reading of Sidonius plausibly characterises Euric’s takeover of the Auvergne not as an expansionist act during a power vacuum, but rather as part of the civil war between Ricimer and Anthemius.’ (From the review by Richard Flower in BMCR 2013.01.50)

Demicheli, Anna Maria, ‘Inquilinato e unioni miste per condizione sociale tra 4. e 5. sec. Da una lettera (Ep. 5,19) di Sidonio Apollinare’, in: Atti dell’Accademia romanistica Costantiniana 18, Rome: Aracne, 2012: 275-304.

Fernández López, María Concepción, ‘”La lune dans un puits”? Broma de frontera (in puteo/in podio, Sid. Apol., Carm. 24, 23-25)’, in: Frédérique Biville et al., Latin vulgaire – Latin tardif IX. Actes du IXe colloque international sur le latin vulgaire et tardif, Lyon, 2-6 septembre 2009, Lyon, 2012, 901-908.

  • info: This volume also contains examples from Sidonius’ letters of the preverbs ad-, in-, and ob– in verbs in –sco (Sophie Van Laer, pp. 693- 704)

Fusi, Alessandro, et al., ‘I nuovi confini del genere: l’epistolario di Sidonio Apollinare’, in Lo spazio letterario di Roma antica, vol. 7 (I Testi. 2 Prosa), Rome, 2012, 584-95.

Gibson, Roy K., ‘Letters into autobiography: the generic mobility of the ancient letter collection’, in: T.D. Papanghelis et al. (eds), Generic Interfaces in Latin Literature: Encounters, Interactions and Transformations, Berlin, 2012, 387-416.

  • info: The ‘generic mobility’ of the ancient epistula is notorious. Since antiquity, letters have been vulnerable to reclassification as members of another genre, whether the new genre is that of ‘treatise’, ‘commentary’ or (in the modern world) ‘essay’. The same generic mobility can be observed also in the case of collections of letters. Since early modern times, editors of ancient collections of letters have been engaged in an informal project of re-ordering these collections along chronological lines. The result has been the gradual transformation of ancient collections into works of history and autobiography (where chronological ordering is a distinctive generic marker in these genres in their modern forms). This chapter focuses on the ideological and historical contexts and motivations for modern and early-modern editorial intervention in the genre of Latin letter collections.
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Gibson, Roy, ‘On the Nature of Ancient Letter Collections’, JRS 102 (2012) 56-78.

  • info: There exists a strong link in modern thinking between letter collections and biographical or historical narration. Many ancient letter collections have been rearranged by modern editors along chronological lines, apparently with the aim of realizing the biographical and historiographical potential of these ancient collections. In their original format, however, non-fictional Greco-Roman letter collections were arranged predominantly by addressee or by theme (often without the preservation of chronology within addressee or thematic groupings), or they might be arranged on the principle of artful variety and significant juxtaposition. Consequently, some purpose or purposes other than biographical or historical narration must be attributed to ancient letter collections. This paper asks what those purposes might be.

Gillett, Andrew, ‘Epic Panegyric and Political Communication in the Fifth-Century West’, in Lucy Grig and Gavin Kelly (eds), Two Romes. Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity, Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity 2, New York, 2012, pp. 265-90.

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  • info: Verse panegyric from Claudian to Sidonius as a characteristic of imperial politics in Rome during the early and mid-fifth century

Golonka, Katarzyna, ‘Elita galo-rzymska w V w. i jej obraz w pismach Sydoniusza Apollinarisa: ludzie, rodziny, więzi społeczne i postawy polityczne’ [The Gallo-Roman elite in the 5th century and its image in the writings of Sidonius Apollinaris: people, families, social bonds and political attitudes], doctoral dissertation Cracow, 2012 [unpubl.].

Guillaumont, François, and Patrick Laurence (eds), La présence de l’histoire dans l’épistolaire, Tours: PU François Rabelais, 2012.

Heather, Peter, ‘Visigoths and the Fall of Rome’, Groniek 191 (2012) 33-44.

  • info: In Heather’s view ‘a very strong case can be made that the Visigoths played a central role in west Roman imperial collapse’. Sidonius is adduced as an example of the Roman landowners who ‘had no choice but to come to accommodations with … the barbarian kingdoms … Some moved quicker than others …, but in the end there was no choice, as the career of Sidonius Apollinaris demonstrates’. A short discussion of this career follows, including a reference to the panegyric of Euric in Ep. 8.9 (page 43)

Henke, Rainer, ‘Der Brief 3,12 des Sidonius Apollinaris an Secundus: Eine Novelle in einer Epistel?’, Hermes 140 (2012) 121-25.

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

  • info: Incorporates all the articles published since 2006 and makes them into a challenging and comprehensive study of late antique aesthetics with Sidonius as its leitmotiv. ‘Este libro pretende reconstruir el paradigma estético que subyace a las producciones literarias y artísticas de la Antigüedad tardía (s. IV-VI d. C.), tan poliédricas y sofisticadas como tradicionalmente malentendidas. Propone para ello un nuevo modelo omnicomprensivo de análisis cultural, basado en tres pilares fundamentales. … Este nuevo modelo … se ensaya mediante su aplicación sistemática a la obra de Sidonio Apolinar, uno de los autores más representativos de la estética tardoantigua.’
  • reviews by Joop van Waarden in BMCR 2013.02.20; Silvia Condorelli in BSL 44 (2014) 754-60

Hernández Lobato, Jesús, ‘Poéticas de lo banal. La literatura tardoantigua como literatura en el campo expandido’, Latomus 71 (2012) 133-49.

Hernández Lobato, Jesús, ‘Nuevas aproximaciones metodológicas al estudio de los comentarios humanísticos: la edición comentada de Sidonio Apolinar a cargo de Giovan Battista Pio (1498) a la luz de la Teoría de los Polisistemas’, in: N. Fernández Rodríguez and M. Fernández Ferreiro (eds), Literatura medieval y renacentista en España: líneas y pautas, Salamanca: SEMYR, 2012, 633-41.

Liebeschuetz, Wolf, ‘“Habitus barbarus”: did barbarians look different from Romans?’, in: Pierfrancesco Porena and Yann Rivière (eds), Expropriations et confiscations dans les royaumes barbares: une approche régionale, Rome, 2012, 13-28.

  • info: Habitus barbarus and ethnic identity, taking into consideration evidence from Ambr. Extra coll. 4, 9-10; Vict. Vit. 2, 8; Sines. Regn. 22; Oros. Hist. 7, 43 and Olymp. Hist. fr. 24; Sidon. Ep. 1, 2 and 4, 20, Carm. 7, 12; Ennod. Carm. 2, 57-59

Litovchenko, Elena, ‘Sidonius’ Letters as a Source of Information about the Life of Late Antiquity’s Society’, Scientific Bulletin of Belgorod State University, History series 126 (2012) 69-73.

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  • info: Contains translations of Ep. 1.6 and 4.24

Luceri, Angelo, ‘I nuovi confini del genere: l’epistolario di Sidonio Apollinare’, in: Lo spazio letterario di Roma antica, vol. 7 (I Testi. 2 Prosa), Rome, 2012, 584-95.

Manukyan, Eduard M., ‘Correlation Between Provincial and Capital in Sidonius Apollinaris’ Perception of the World’, Labyrinth (2012) 148.

Mascoli, Patrizia, ‘Tracce di Persio in Sidonio Apollinare’, Classica et Christiana 7 (2012) 183-92.

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  • info: Discusses Carm. 5.497; 9.264, 318- 20, 332-35; 15.182-84; 16.2; 23.132; Ep. 3.13.6; 4.1.4; 8.16.2; 9.7. Probably, only Ep. 4.1.4 and 8.16.2 are direct borrowings

Montone, Francesco, ‘Sidonio Apollinare. Carmi 1 e 2. Praefatio e Panegirico per Antemio. Introduzione, traduzione, commento ed appendici’, PhD thesis, University of Naples, 2011-2012 [unpubl.].

Montone, Francesco, ‘Il barbaro che Roma non sconfisse. Il vandalo Genserico in una similitudine del poeta tardoantico Sidonio Apollinare’, Salternum 28-29 (2012) 67-77.

Näf, Beat, ‘Se taire sur l’histoire’, in Guillaumont and Laurence 2012, 81-91.

Paschoud, François, ‘On a Recent Book by Alan Cameron, The Last Pagans of Rome‘, AnTard 20 (2012) 359-88.

  • info: While advocating more nuanced positions throughout, Paschoud, on pp. 367-69, makes it plausible ‘that Flavianus had perhaps … translated Philostratus, or had sponsored such a translation, or played some role which it is impossible to specify in its genesis or its circulation’.

Ploton-Nicollet, François, ‘La topique de la “nourrice divine”: un motif récurrent dans la poésie d’éloge depuis Stace jusqu’à Sidoine Apollinaire’, in: N. Catellani-Dufrêne and M. Perrin (eds), La lyre et la pourpre. Poésie et politique de l’Antiquité tardive à la Renaissance, Rennes: Presses Universitaires, 2012, 33-57.

Santelia, Stefania, Sidonio Apollinare. Carme 16, Eucharisticon ad Faustum episcopum. Introduzione, traduzione e commento, Cacucci Editore: Bari, 2012. With a preface by Joop van Waarden and an appendix by Emanuele Castelli, ‘L’invocazione allo Spiritus nel carme 16’.

  • info: ‘Significativa testimonianza della perfetta fusione tra cultura classico-pagana e tradizione cristiana, il carme 16 propone al lettore la singolare “mescolanza” di preghiera/inno allo Spiritus e “panegirico”/agiografia di Fausto: un esempio, potremmo dire, dello “sperimentalismo” della poesia di Sidonio.’ (p. 56)
  • reviews by Francesco Montone in Atene e Roma 2013, fasc. 1-2, 219-21; Roberto Alciati in CR 64 (2014) 476-77; Helga Köhler in Gnomon 87 (2015) 124-27; Silvia Condorelli in BSL 45 (2015) 339-42.

Santos, Diego, El orden, la opinión y la lucha. La politica en la Galia desde la época romana hasta la merovingia, Buenos Aires: Biblos, 2012.

Squillante, Marisa, ‘La voce degli animali tra onomatopea e imitazione’, in: Paulo F. Alberto and David Paniagua (eds), Ways of Approaching Knowledge in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages – Schools and Scholarship, Studia Classica et Medievalia 8, Nordhausen: Bautz 2012, 144-57.

  • info: Animal sounds in Sidonius, among others

Stoehr-Monjou, Annick, ‘Sidoine Apollinaire, ep. 5, 8: Constantin le Grand, nouveau Néron’, in: Guillaumont and Laurence 2012, 239-60.

Stueber, Till, ‘… ut ambigas ampliusne suae gentis an suae sectae teneat principatum. Überlegungen zur Kirchenpolitik des Westgotenkönings Eurich’, conference paper ‘Toletum III – Fokus Spätantike’, University of Hamburg, 2012.

Wolff, Étienne, ‘La description par Sidoine de son voyage à Rome (Lettres I, 5)’, Itineraria 11 (2012) 1-11.

Wolff, Étienne, ‘Deux éloges de Narbonne aux IVe et Ve siècles, par Ausone et Sidoine Apollinaire’, Lucida Intervalla 41 (2012) 115-29.

Wolff, Étienne, ‘Sidoine Apollinaire et l’histoire à travers sa correspondance’, in: Guillaumont and Laurence 2012, 43-54.

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