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late antique history and religionGeneral Editor

hagit amirav (Vu amsterdam)

Series Editorspaul van Geest (Vu amsterdam and tilburg),

Bas ter haar romeny (leiden), Gavin Kelly (edinburgh)

Advisory Boardaveril cameron (oxford), elizabeth a. clark (durham, nc), nina Garsoïan (new York),

christoph Markschies (Berlin), Fergus Millar (oxford), lorenzo perrone (Bologna)


new approaches to sidonius apollinaris

edited by

Johannes a. van waarden and Gavin Kelly

with indices on helga Köhler,

C. Sollius Apollinaris Sidonius: Briefe Buch I

peetersleuVen – paris – walpole, Ma

2013


isBn 978-90-429-2928-9d/2013/0602/90

a catalogue record for this book is available from the library of congress.

© 2013, peeters, Bondgenotenlaan 153, B-3000 leuven, Belgium

no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage or retrieval devices or systems, without prior written permission from the publisher, except the quotation of brief passages for review purposes.every effort has been made to locate the holders of the rights of the various illustrations reproduced. if you have any questions, please contact the publisher.


taBle oF contents

acknowledgements .................................................................................. vii

information on authors ......................................................................... ix

note on abbreviations and references ................................................ xiii

introduction 1. sidonius in the 21st century ............................................................ 3

Joop van waarden

part 1: cultural diversity in research 2. sidonius in Francophone countries .............................................. 23

david amherdt 3. sidonius in German-speaking countries ..................................... 37

helga Köhler 4. sidonius in italy ................................................................................. 47

stefania santelia

part 2: The Carmina: poetics and intertextuality 5. The Failure of sidonius’ poetry ....................................................... 63

piet Gerbrandy 6. The poetics of inclusion in servius and sidonius ........................ 77

david rijser 7. writing commentary on sidonius’ panegyrics ........................... 93

tiziana Brolli 8. improvisation and poetical programme in sidonius, Ep. 9.13 .. 111

silvia condorelli 9. sidonius and horace: The art of Memory ................................... 133

annick stoehr-Monjou 10. sidonius and claudian ..................................................................... 171

Gavin Kelly

part 3: The Epistulae: The collection, its aims, and its language11. reading the letters of sidonius by the Book ............................... 195

roy Gibson12. dating the letters of sidonius ........................................................ 221

ralph Mathisen


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13. creating identity from the past: The construction of history in the letters of sidonius ................................................................. 249

sigrid Mratschek14. applying text linguistics to the letters of sidonius .................. 273

rodie risselada

appendixindices on C. Sollius Apollinaris Sidonius: Briefe Buch I (heidel-

berg, 1995), including addenda et corrigenda .............................. 305helga Köhler

Bibliography .............................................................................................. 353

index nominum (ancient) ....................................................................... 379

index nominum (modern) ..................................................................... 384

index rerum .............................................................................................. 386

index locorum .......................................................................................... 388


acKnowledGeMents

The editors wish to thank the netherlands institute for advanced study in the humanities and social sciences (nias) for making possible the exploratory workshop ‘sidonius apollinaris for the 21st century’, held at wassenaar (netherlands) on 26-30 January 2011, which gave rise to this book. we also thank the dutch centre for patristic research (cpo: tilburg university, Vu university amsterdam, and leiden university) for assistance with the funding application and for including the newly born sidonius project in its research programme, and the board of edi-tors of the lahr series for adopting its publication.

we are grateful for the shrewd advice of the external reviewer which has helped to make this a better and more coherent book. The contribu-tions to this volume that were not originally written in english were translated by Gavin Kelly, who also took care of the linguistic accuracy of the other pieces by non-native speakers. Joop van waarden looked after the organization and prepared the manuscript. together, we acted as a sounding board for the authors. it is the authors we want to thank above all for their creativity and patience. without them, there would obviously have been no book at all.

Joop van waarden Gavin Kellyamsterdam edinburgh


inForMation on authors

David Amherdt is privat-docent of latin language and literature of antiquity and of the renaissance at the university of Fribourg. he is also co-editor of Jean du Bellay’s correspondence at the university of neu-châtel. his research interests lie in the poetry and prose of late antiquity (paulinus of nola, ausonius, sidonius apollinaris) and of the humanists of the sixteenth century (the swiss humanists and alciatus, castellio, and doletus). he has notably published the correspondence between ausonius and paulinus of nola (Bern, 2004) and a commentary on the fourth book of sidonius’ correspondence (Bern, 2001).

Tiziana Brolli is assegnista di ricerca at the university of padua (dipar-timento di scienze storiche, geografiche e dell’antichità). she participates in the research project ‘letteratura medica in latino del XVi e del XVii secolo in area veneta: la scuola anatomica padovana’. her main interests of research concern the study of late antique literature with special focus on sidonius’ panegyrics. she is working on a commentary on sidonius’ panegyric in honour of Majorian.

Silvia Condorelli is professore aggregato of latin at the university of naples Federico ii. she is a specialist in the latin literature of late antiq-uity, and author of two books on sidonius apollinaris: L’esametro dei Panegyrici di Sidonio Apollinare (naples, 2001), and Il poeta doctus nel V sec. d. C. Aspetti della poetica di Sidonio Apollinare (naples, 2008). recently she has co-edited, with daniele di rienzo, the volume Quarta giornata ennodiana (cesena, 2011). she has also written articles on sido-nius apollinaris, ennodius, and catullus.

Piet Gerbrandy is universitair docent of classical and medieval latin at the university of amsterdam. he is a specialist in modern dutch poetry and translator of Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria. currently he is focusing on the analysis of latin poetry from late antiquity. he is also preparing an annotated translation of the twelfth-century treatise De amore by andreas capellanus.

Roy Gibson is professor of latin at the university of Manchester. he is co-author with ruth Morello of Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger: An Introduction (cambridge, 2012), and is currently working on a com-mentary on pliny, letters Book 6.


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Gavin Kelly is senior lecturer in classics at the university of edin-burgh. he is a specialist in the literature and political history of the later roman empire, and author of Ammianus Marcellinus: The Allusive Historian (cambridge, 2008) and co-editor with lucy Grig of Two Romes: Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity (new York, 2012). he has also written articles on a variety of later latin authors including ammi-anus, claudian, Festus, and symmachus.

Helga Köhler is lehrbeauftragte at the ‘institut für lateinische philologie des Mittelalters und der neuzeit’ of the university of heidelberg. until her retirement, she was engaged in the Vetus Latina project on the Actus Apostolorum at the university of Mainz. her commentary on the first book of sidonius’ correspondence appeared in 1995. currently she is pre-paring a German translation of the letters of sidonius.

Ralph Mathisen is professor of history, classics, and Medieval studies at the university of illinois at urbana-champaign. he is a specialist in the ancient world with particular interests in prosopography and in the society, culture, and religion of late antiquity. his teaching experience includes the ancient near east, Greece, rome, Byzantium, coinage, and roman law. he has written more than seventy scholarly articles and written or edited thirteen books, most recently Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations: Prehistory to 640 CE (new York, 2011). he serves as editor of the Journal of Late Antiquity and Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity.

Sigrid Mratschek is professor of ancient history at the university of ros-tock. her research focuses on the culture and society of creative élites dur-ing late antiquity. her book Divites et praepotentes. Reichtum und soziale Stellung in der Literatur der Prinzipatszeit (stuttgart, 1993) was awarded the Bruno heck prize. she also is the author of Der Briefwechsel des Paulinus von Nola (Göttingen, 2002). in 2007 she was elected a Member of the council of the international association of patristic studies (oxford/paris), and in 2012 she received a Visiting Fellowship at all souls college, oxford, for her research project ‘sidonius apollinaris: creating identity from the past’.

Rodie Risselada is universitair hoofddocent of latin at the university of amsterdam. she is a specialist in latin linguistics, in particular the prag-matics of classical latin. her research focuses on communicative aspects of latin texts, such as directives, questions, vocatives and particles, and on structuring devices.

David Rijser is universitair docent in the classics department at the university of amsterdam. he is a specialist on the relationship between


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poetry and visual art, and is known for his expertise as a cultural histo-rian and for his interdisciplinary approach. among his recent publica-tions are Raphael’s Poetics (amsterdam, 2012) and the co-edited volume The ‘I’ in the Making (turnhout, 2012). as a Virgilian, he edits the amsterdam Virgil lectures, the first volume of which, M.c.J. putnam’s The Humanness of Heroes: Studies in the Conclusion of Virgil’s Aeneid (amsterdam, 2011), contains his extensive afterword. he is currently finishing a study on the reception of the classics.

Stefania Santelia is professore aggregato of latin language and literature at the university of Bari; her interests in roman literature include, in recent years, authors and aspects of literary production of late antiquity, with particular reference to linguistic aspects, composition techniques, and forms of reception of the classical tradition, primarily in fifth- century Gaul. her recent publications include Prospero d’Aquitania, ad coniugem suam. In appendice: liber epigrammatum (naples, 2009), and Sidonio Apollinare. Carme 16. eucharisticon ad Faustum episcopum (Bari, 2012), and a number of articles on both authors.

Annick Stoehr-Monjou is Maître de conférences of latin at the univer-sity of clermont-Ferrand ii (celis). as a specialist in the literature of late antiquity, she has written studies of dracontius, luxorius, and sidonius apollinaris. she has been interested in sidonius’ Poétique de l’éclat (in REL 87, 2009) and in his conception of history: ‘Ep. 5, 8: constantin le Grand, nouveau néron’ (in L’Histoire dans l’épistolaire, tours, 2012). she co-organized the colloquium ‘présence de sidoine’ (2010; proceedings, co-edited with r. poignault, forthcoming). The pro-ject ‘sidonius at clermont’ is part of the new programme Msh-lido ‘des lieux, des œuvres’ (2012).

Joop van Waarden is research associate of latin at the university of amsterdam and research Fellow of the dutch centre for patristic research (cpo: tilburg university, Vu university amsterdam and lei-den university). in 2010, he published the first volume of a commentary on the seventh book of sidonius’ correspondence, Writing to Survive, which he is currently complementing with a second volume. he is responsible for the ‘saxxi’ project, ‘sidonius apollinaris for the 21st cen-tury’, and maintains the dedicated website www.sidoniusapollinaris.nl.


note on aBBreViations and reFerences

abbreviations of ancient authors and texts follow the practice of the Oxford Latin Dictionary up to ca. 200 ce and thereafter those of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae; authors and titles can also be found in full in the index locorum. For the poems included in sidonius’ letters, the numeration introduced by christiansen and holland in their Concordantia in Sidonii Apollinaris carmina (nos 25-41) is applied alongside the section numbers of the letters for greater ease of consultation.

The bibliography lists the vast majority of works cited in the text, with the exception of translations of authors other than sidonius, book reviews, dictionary entries, and a few works not on sidonius that are mentioned only once. it is divided into four sections: (1) a list of early French editions and translations in chronological order (this is tied to the account of French and Francophone sidonian scholarship in chapter 2); (2) modern editions, translations, and commentaries since 1887 (the date of the fundamental critical edition of luetjohann in Monumenta Germaniae Historica); (3) concordances and indexes; (4) monographs and articles. Journal titles are generally abbreviated according to the policy of L’Année Philologique. other abbreviations are unlikely to cause prob-lems, but for completeness’ sake, we list them here:

CAH Cambridge Ancient History, 2nd edn (cambridge, 1970-2005).CIL Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (Berlin, 1862-).DNP Der neue Pauly. Enzyklopädie der Antike (stuttgart, 1996-2003).ILS dessau, h. (ed.), Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae, 3 vols (Berlin,

1892-1916). MGH Monumenta Germaniae Historica (AA = Auctores antiquis

simi (Berlin, 1877-1919), Epist. = Epistolae (Berlin, 1891-)).PL Patrologia Latina: Migne, J.-p. (ed.), Patrologiae cursus com

pletus, Series Latina (paris, 1844-55).PLRE 1 Jones, a.h.M. et al., Prosopography of the Later Roman

Empire I A.D. 260395 (cambridge, 1971). PLRE 2 Martindale, J.r., Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire II

A.D. 395527 (cambridge, 1980). RE pauly, a.F. and wissowa, G. (eds), Paulys RealEncyclopädie

der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft (Munich, 1894-1972).TLL Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (Munich, 1894-).


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