Late Antique Historiography

On the months

Title(s):
  • On the months
  • Περὶ μηνῶν
    (Peri mēnōn, On the months)
  • De mensibus
Author:
Period covered:
Ancient myth and Greco-Roman history
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Secular history (antiquarianism)
  • Calendar
Remarks:
The work is partially and indirectly preserved. It possibly consists of four books of which the second (Περὶ ἡμέρας) and third (Περὶ μηνός) have a title. Book four is an overview of the twelve months with these months indicated at the beginning of each section.
Edition - Translation:
  • A.C. Bandy (2013) (ed.) Ioannes Lydus on the months (De Mensibus). Lewiston.
  • R. Wünsch (1898) Joannis Laurentii Lydi liber de mensibus (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana). Leipzig.
Fragments:
Users:
Sources:
Bibliography:
  • A.C. Bandy (2013) (ed.) Ioannes Lydus on celestial signs (De Ostentis). Lewiston.
  • M. Maas (1991) John Lydus and the Roman past: Antiquarianism and politics in the age of Justinian. London - New York.
  • R. Wünsch (1903) Ioannis Lydi De magistratibus populi Romani libri tres (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana). Leipzig.