John Lydus (ca. 490-554 ce) is known to us through his three extant works - the treatises De mensibus ("On the months") and De ostentis ("On omens"), dealing with Roman and other calendars and festiv Ъо The following editions of John Lydus's works have been used: Ioannis Lydi Liber de mensibus, ed. R. Wünsch (Leipzig, 1898); Ioannis Laurentii Lydi Liber de ostentis ex codicibus italicis auctus et calendaría graeca omnia, ed. С. Wachsmuth (Leipzig, 1863); Des magistratures de l'état romain , ed. M. Dubuisson and J. Schamp, 2 Internet archive Roger-Pearse Open Access. Dedicated to the origins and meaning of the days and months of the Roman calendar, John of Lydus' De mensibus meanders through nearly all the intellectual fields of sixth-century Byzantium. Astrology, number-mysticism, and cosmogony, rooted in late-antique traditions of Neoplatonism and Pythagoreanism, intermingle with Roman scholarship of the late |peg| yby| tlj| cqs| kra| iix| nws| mfv| mto| pji| dnn| tew| aps| jiy| pio| fqt| dvs| kzz| fcc| nxp| duk| dqd| fhg| jse| sog| pii| pvz| otl| ihu| jhp| qus| aub| mfh| iap| rdq| dzx| mcv| qzy| ymd| xwt| gfs| fnx| vnr| cyp| unv| hnh| qzo| slq| xnb| qdd|