Vibius Sequester

Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 1967

Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum. Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries: annotated lists and guides, 2016

Classical Review 62.1: 197-199, 2012

Histoire et géographie chez les auteurs grecs du IIe S. av. J.-C. au VIe S. apr. J.-C. ,sous la direction de M. Coltelloni-Trannoy, S.Morlet, (Orient & Méditerranée, 29) , Édition de Boccard, Paris 2018, pp. 225-240, 2018

Plekos, 2021

The book under review offers a complete English translation of Cassiodorus' Variae, a work which-undeservedly-has played little role in the scholarly debate about late antique letter collections and the way they shape (and are shaped by) the political, cultural, and social landscape of the so-called 'successor states' in the Mediterranean. The twelve books of the Variae contain 468 official letters mainly issued by the rulers of Ostrogothic Italy (507-537). Five books were written in the name of Theoderic the Great (Cassiod. var. 1-5), three in that of his successors Athalaric, Amalasuintha, Theodahad, and Vitiges (Cassiod. var. 8-10). Books six and seven contain template letters (formulae); the last two books (Cassiod. var. 11-12) were written in Cassiodorus' own name in his capacity as praefectus praetorio. The letter collection is complemented by a philosophical treatise on the soul (De anima), which Cassiodorus intends to be understood as the thirteenth book of the Variae (pp. 16-17). Michael Shane Bjornlie's book is the first full English translation of all letters of the Variae. It does not include the treatise entitled De amina.

Arethusa, 2016