Gavin Kelly
@gavinkellylatin.bsky.social
Latinist, late Roman historian
... 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/
The Last Historians of Rome
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September 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
... 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/
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 ...
ausonius.blogspot.com
September 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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 👇
(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...)
Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature (Cambridge, 2024), 97–157: www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...)
www.pure.ed.ac.uk
May 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
(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...)
Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature (Cambridge, 2024), 97–157: www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...)
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-...
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...
byzantiumandfriends.podbean.com
May 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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-...
Reposted by Gavin Kelly
Sidonius Apollinaris' Letters in the Green & Yellows, forthcoming in December.
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May 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Sidonius Apollinaris' Letters in the Green & Yellows, forthcoming in December.
www.cambridge.org/highereducat...
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Reposted by Gavin Kelly
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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November 14, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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...
