George and Justin's book has challenged the phantom of Kaisergeschichte, arguing for a big history work of Sextus Aurelius Victor, preserved only through abbreviations and fragments. Bleckmann expressed his scepticism of their thesis in a review of their book, dismissing it as just another model.

This workshop has not been advertised that much, but for anyone interested in Late Antique Latin historiography and recent groundbreaking developments in our understanding of it this looks extremely interesting. I am really sad I will not be able to attend.

I have published a letter from the 17th-century classicist Johann Georg Graevius to his French colleague Adrien de Valois, about the latter's Ammianus edition, on the blog of the Last Historians of Rome project. lasthistorians.shca.ed.ac.uk/blog/2025/12...

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 👇

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-...

Sidonius Apollinaris' Letters in the Green & Yellows, forthcoming in December. www.cambridge.org/highereducat...

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...

Oggi!