Gavin Kelly

The Last Historians of Rome

... at which you can also read the first post on the blog, a reposting of Justin Stover's and George Woudhuysen's elegant summary of their great book on Aurelius Victor, first published in Antigone: lasthistorians.shca.ed.ac.uk/blog/

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Translating Ammianus Marcellinus, Book 14 This piece was written for the new blog of the Last Historians of Rome project, a collaboration between the Universities of Edinburgh ...

First blogpost of the year, on 'Translating Ammianus Marcellinus. Book 14'! Three examples of progress in translation. You can either read it on my Ausonius blog ausonius.blogspot.com/2025/09/tran... (which has the advanatge that you can comment) or on the new blog of the Last Historians project 👇

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(It is based on G.A.J. Kelly, ‘Periodisations’, in R.K. Gibson andC.L. Whitton (eds) The
Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature (Cambridge, 2024), 97–157: www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...)

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135. Latin literature in late antiquity, with Gavin Kelly | Byzantium & Friends A conversation with Gavin Kelly (University of Edinburgh) about the corpus of Latin literature from antiquity down to the present, where we discuss the reasons why most scholars focus on the period be...

I was interviewed on Anthony Kaldellis' podcast Byzantium and Friends on Latin literature, esp. in late antiquity, and the periods we cut it up into. There's a bit about Greek literature too: byzantiumandfriends.podbean.com/e/135-latin-...

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Cover of the new Green & Yellow volume Sidonius Apollinaris, Selected Letters, edited by Joop van Waarden.

Sidonius Apollinaris' Letters in the Green & Yellows, forthcoming in December.
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THE DEATH AND PUBLIC REHABILITATION OF APOLLINARIS THE ELDER: INTERTEXTUALITY WITH LUCAN IN SIDONIUS APOLLINARIS, EPIST. 3.12 | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core THE DEATH AND PUBLIC REHABILITATION OF APOLLINARIS THE ELDER: INTERTEXTUALITY WITH LUCAN IN SIDONIUS APOLLINARIS, EPIST. 3.12 - Volume 74 Issue 1

Apollinaris the Elder victimized as another Pompey, Sidonius Apollinaris suggests in a hitherto unnoticed allusion to Lucan. See Joop van Waarden, ‘The Death and Public Rehabilitation of Apollinaris the Elder' in the latest issue of CQ 74 (2024) 309-14; open access doi.org/10.1017/S000...

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Oggi!

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