Joop van Waarden
Radboud University Nijmegen, Classics (GLTC), Department Member
- University of Amsterdam, Classical Studies, Department Memberadd
- Latin Language and Literature, Roman History, Roman Empire, Late Antique and Byzantine History, Classical philology, Latin Literature, and 24 moreLate Antiquity, Christianity and Rome, Classics, Sidonius Apollinaris, Ancient History, Historiography, Late Antique Religion, Late Antique Liturgy, Late Antique Literature, Pragmatics, Byzantine Studies, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics, Early Christianity, Barbarians and Romans in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, Late Antique Latin Poetry, Epistolography, Patristics, Early Church, Latin epistolography, Late Latin Literature, Patristics and Late Antiquity, and Sidonio Apollinareedit
- Research associate in Latinedit
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... 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.
- 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.
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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... 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.
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 Interests: Classics, Latin Literature, Late Latin Literature, History of Christianity, Asceticism, and 9 moreEarly Christianity, Late Antiquity, Latin Language and Literature, Classical philology, Epistolography, Latin linguistics, Latin epistolography, Sidonius Apollinaris, and History of Christian Asceticism
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... 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 Interests: Classics, Latin Literature, Roman History, Languages and Linguistics, Byzantine Studies, and 13 moreLate Antiquity, Epistolary literature, Horace, Latin Language and Literature, Linguistics, Claudian, Latin Language, Epistolography, Latin linguistics, Latin poetry, Latin epistolography, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, and Sidonius Apollinaris
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Research Interests: Classics, Latin Literature, Roman History, Late Antique and Byzantine History, Byzantine Studies, and 9 moreLate Antiquity, Latin Language and Literature, Classical philology, Late Antique Magic, Late Antique Literature, Roman Empire, Christianity and Rome, Late Antique Religion, and Late Antique Liturgy
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... 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.
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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... 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
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
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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... 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.
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In Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 164, Leiden: Brill, 2020, 201-20
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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
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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
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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
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in Invigilata Lucernis 40 (2018) 187-98
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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... 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.
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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... 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.
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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... 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.
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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... 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.
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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... 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.
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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... 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.
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DESCRIZIONE Graziana Brescia Oleno e Letea. Destini di pietra nella fabula ovidiana di Orfeo Clotilde Craca Clitennestra. Clitennestre Sara Fascione Retorica e realtà: i barbari di Sidonio Apollinare Andrea Favuzzi Dionigi di... more
DESCRIZIONE
Graziana Brescia
Oleno e Letea. Destini di pietra nella fabula ovidiana di Orfeo
Clotilde Craca
Clitennestra. Clitennestre
Sara Fascione
Retorica e realtà: i barbari di Sidonio Apollinare
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?
Graziana Brescia
Oleno e Letea. Destini di pietra nella fabula ovidiana di Orfeo
Clotilde Craca
Clitennestra. Clitennestre
Sara Fascione
Retorica e realtà: i barbari di Sidonio Apollinare
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?