Sidonius Apollinaris’ Letters, Book 2

Dr Judith Hindermann is a researcher in the Department of Latin Studies at the University of Basel. Her publications include a monograph in German, Der elegische Esel: Apuleius’ Metamorphosen und Ovids Ars Amatoria (The Elegiac Ass: Apuleius’ Metamorphoses and Ovid’s Ars Amatoria, 2009), an edited collection in German, co-edited with Christian Guerra and Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer, Johannes Atrocianus: Text, Übersetzung, Kommentar (Johannes Atrocianus: Text, Translation, Commentary, 2018) and an article, co-written with Harich-Schwazbauer, ‘Leisure and the Muses in Sidonius Apollinaris’, in the Journal of Late Antiquity, 2020.

• ForewordIntroduction1. Sidonius’ life between otium and negotium and the position of book two in the collection of letters 2. The date and order of letters in book two3. Book two as a response to Pliny the Younger’s Letters and the question of intertextuality 4. The collection of epigrams in Sidonius’ collection of letters 5. Text and translationAbbreviations for books, series, and reference works Text Book 2 Translation Book 2Commentary Book 2 BibliographyIndex

The lexical, stylistic and historical analysis is rich, precise and well supported by the bibliography. The commentary is easy to read and provides the reader with basic information for the less experienced, as well as more specialist remarks. All in all, the volume represents a precious contribution to a better knowledge of Sidonius as a writer and a protagonist of his time.