Apollinaris Sidonius Und Die Verwandlung Der Römischen Satire in Der Spätantike

Blänsdorf, Jürgen

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“…Carm. 12, see the fuller discussion by Mratschek in this volume, who foregrounds the political and polemical thrust of the poem;Blänsdorf 1993, Halsall 2002, Smolak 2008 Henke 2008, 159-65. The literariness of Sidonius's representation of "barbarian" neighbours is emphasized byGerth 2013, 200-219, who notes that Sidonius generally does not attribute them any responsibility for the decline of Roman culture (219).…”

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Veriora Nomina Camenarum: Erudition, Uncertainty, and Cognitive Displacement as Poetic Strategies in Sidonius Apollinaris

Schlapbach¹

2020

Journal of Late Antiquity

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This essay examines a set of poetic strategies that create a peculiar tension in Sidonius's poetry. While displaying profound erudition, several poems skillfully undermine the impression that they are the predictable products of carefully mastered methods of composition. They self-consciously displace reader expectations by posing as something they are not, by referring to poems that were never written, or by obliquely delivering what they proclaim to reject. The first part discusses the programmatic statements at the beginning and at the end of Carm. 9 (the poem dedicated to Magnus Felix which opens the collection of the Carmina minora). The second and third parts examine the rhetorical structure of the recusationes in Carm. 9 as well as in Carm. 12 (a poem addressed to Catullinus), and the last part addresses Sidonius satirographus, mentioned in Ep. 1.11.8. This essay argues that the poetic strategies examined here do not aim to marginalize the poetry's content nor betray an extreme pessimism regarding poetry's ability to express something. Rather, they contribute to the creation of a poetic stance that goes beyond erudition and rational method and allows the reader to be surprised and unsettled.

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Veriora Nomina Camenarum: Erudition, Uncertainty, and Cognitive Displacement as Poetic Strategies in Sidonius Apollinaris

Schlapbach¹

2020

Journal of Late Antiquity

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“…1 Recent studies include: on the structure of the letter collection, with special attention to the tradition of Pliny and Symmachus, Gibson 2011;2013a;2013b;2020, 389-391; for the correspondence as self-representation, Hanaghan 2019, 18-57; on the history of senatorial letterwriting, Sogno 2014and White 2018. 2 See Dentith 1995 3 Scholarship on the subject of satire and humour in Sidonius includes Blänsdorf 1993, Halsall 2002, Henke 2008, Simons 2008, Smolak 2008, Overwien 2009, Styka 2010, Kitchen 2010, Zakharova 2015, Wolff 2020a. For his self-mockery, see van Waarden 2016, 116-117.…”

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Leafing through Pliny with Sidonius

Waarden

2021

Mnemosyne

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The programmatic opening letter 1.1 of Sidonius Apollinaris’ correspondence is clearly inspired by the opening letter of Pliny the Younger’s correspondence. This article, however, argues that it can only be fully understood when read against a combination of Pliny’s letters 1.1, 1.2, and 1.5. Plin. Ep. 1.2 raises the issue of editing and publishing speeches, which Sidonius explicitly applies to bringing out a letter collection, as well as the eminently important discussion of a literary canon in which Cicero plays a crucial role for both authors. In Sidonius’ opening letter, Cicero’s appearance is cloaked in a strangely farcical guise which, however, becomes transparent once read against the foil of Plin. Ep. 1.5. Cicero then appears as a symbol of non-conformist behaviour which is at the basis of Sidonius’ editorial project.

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Reading Sidonius' <I>Epistles</I>

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Apollinaris Sidonius Und Die Verwandlung Der Römischen Satire in Der Spätantike

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Veriora Nomina Camenarum: Erudition, Uncertainty, and Cognitive Displacement as Poetic Strategies in Sidonius Apollinaris

Veriora Nomina Camenarum: Erudition, Uncertainty, and Cognitive Displacement as Poetic Strategies in Sidonius Apollinaris

Leafing through Pliny with Sidonius

Reading Sidonius' <I>Epistles</I>

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