Gavin Kelly
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Latinist, late Roman historian
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... 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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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 👇
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 ...
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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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Sidonius Apollinaris' Letters in the Green & Yellows, forthcoming in December.
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Cover of the new Green & Yellow volume Sidonius Apollinaris, Selected Letters, edited by Joop van Waarden.
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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...
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
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