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Sidonius Apollinaris

Gaius Sollius Modestus Apollinaris Sidonius, better known as Sidonius Apollinaris (5 November,[1] c. 430 – 481/490 AD), was a poet, diplomat, and bishop. Born into the Gallo-Roman aristocracy, he was son-in-law to Emperor Avitus and was appointed Urban prefect of Rome by Emperor Anthemius in 468. In 469 he was appointed Bishop of Clermont and he led the defence of the city from Euric, King of the Visigoths, from 473 to 475. He retained his position as bishop after the city's conquest, until his death in the 480s. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic church, the Orthodox Church, and the True Orthodox Church, with his feast day on 21 August.

Saint

Sidonius Apollinaris

c. 430
Lugdunum, Gaul, Western Roman Empire

c. 485
Clermont-Ferrand, Kingdom of the Visigoths

Catholic Church,Orthodox Church, True Orthodox Church

21 August

Carmina; Epistles

Sidonius is "the single most important surviving author from 5th-century Gaul" according to Eric Goldberg.[2] He is one of four Gallo-Roman aristocrats of the 5th- to 6th-century whose letters survive in quantity; the others are Ruricius, bishop of Limoges (died 507), Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus, bishop of Vienne (died 518) and Magnus Felix Ennodius of Arles, bishop of Ticinum (died 534). All of them were linked in the tightly bound aristocratic Gallo-Roman network that provided the bishops of Catholic Gaul.[3] His writing is characterised by an extremely dense network of classical and biblical allusions, which was central to his self-presentation as a Roman aristocrat.

Hindermann, Judith, ed. (2022). Sidonius Apollinaris' letters, book 2: text, translation and commentary. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.  9781399506304.

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Marolla, Giulia, ed. (2023). Sidonius - Letters book 5, part 1: text, translation and commentary. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.  9781399510776.

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Waarden, Johannes Alexander van (2016). Writing to survive: a commentary on Sidonius Apollinaris letters book 7. Leuven Paris Bristol: Peeters.  9789042933538.

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Brown, Peter (2012). Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD. Princeton University Press.  978-0-691-15290-5.

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Nora Chadwick, Poetry and Letters in Early Christian Gaul London: Bowes and Bowes, 1955.

Egetenmeyr, Veronika; Wiesehöfer, Josef (2022). Die Konstruktion der "Anderen": Barbarenbilder in den Briefen des Sidonius Apollinaris. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.  9783447119061.

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M. P. Hanaghan, , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Reading Sidonius' Epistles

(1994). Sidonius Apollinaris and the Fall of Rome, AD 407-485. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-814472-4.

Harries, Jill

Harries, Jill (2018). "Sidonius Apollinaris". In Nicholson, Oliver (ed.). , Volume 2: J–Z. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 1379–1380. ISBN 978-0-19-881625-6.

The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

Kelly, Gavin (18 March 2020). . Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-1-4744-6170-2.

Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris

Gavin Kelly and Joop van Waarden (eds), , Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris

Sigrid Mratschek, "Identitätsstiftung aus der Vergangenheit: Zum Diskurs über die trajanische Bildungskultur im Kreis des Sidonius Apollinaris", in Therese Fuhrer (hg), Die christlich-philosophischen Diskurse der Spätantike: Texte, Personen, Institutionen: Akten der Tagung vom 22.-25. Februar 2006 am Zentrum für Antike und Moderne der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008) (Philosophie der Antike, 28),

Mratschek, Sigrid (2020). "Sidonius' Social World / Creating Culture and Presenting the Self in Sidonius". In Kelly, Gavin; van Waarden, Joop (eds.). . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. pp. 214–260.

The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris

C.E. Stevens, Sidonius Apollinaris and his Age. Oxford: University Press, 1933.

K.F. Stroheker. Der senatorische Adel im spätantiken Gallien. Tübingen, 1948.

Waarden, Johannes Alexander van; Kelly, Gavin (2013). New approaches to Sidonius Apollinaris: Briefe Buch I. Leuven Paris Walpole: Peeters.  9789042929289.

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, ed. (1980). The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire: Volume II, AD 395–527. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-20159-4.

Martindale, John R.

. Lynn Harry Nelson.

Apollinaris Sidonius (5 November c. 430 - 21 August c. 483) – Medieval Lectures

Monumenta Germaniae Historica

1887 critical Latin edition of the works of Sidonius

Archived 2009-09-17 at the Wayback Machine, O. M. Dalton (1915)

Biographical introduction to the Letters

O. M. Dalton (1915)

Complete English translation of the Letters of Sidonius Apollinaris

maintained by Joop van Waarden since 2003, frequently updated

Sidonius Apollinaris, dedicated site, with bibliography and complete Latin text of the correspondence and the poetry

Opera Omnia by Migne Patrologia Latina with analytical indexes

Wikisource ; Piercy, William C., eds. (1911). "Sidonius Apollinaris, St" . Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century (3rd ed.). London: John Murray.

Wace, Henry

Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

"Sidonius Apollinaris" 

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the : Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Apollinaris Sidonius, Caius Sollius". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 183.

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