Lydus, Johannes Laurentius, 490-approximately 565
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Name (Hebrew)
לידוס
Name (Latin)
Lydus, Johannes Laurentius, 490-approximately 565
Other forms of name
Lydus, Johannes Laurentius, 490-ca. 565 a
Laurentius, Johannes Lydus, 490-ca. 565
Lydus, Ioannes Laurentius, 490-ca. 565
Lido, Giovanni, 490-ca. 565
Johannes Lydus, 490-ca. 565
Joannes Lydus, 490-ca. 565
Date of birth
0490
Date of death
0565
Associated country
Byzantine Empire
Field of activity
Neoplatonism
Philosophy
Occupation
Officials and employees
Teachers
Associated Language
grc
Gender
male
Sources of Information
- His On powers, or, The magistracies of the Roman state, 1983, c1982:t.p. (Joannes Lydus) p. ix, etc. (Ioannes Laurentious Philadelpheus Lydos; generally referred to as Lydus; b. A.D. 490 in Philadelphia in Lydia)
- LC manual cat.(hdg.: Joannes Lydus; usage: Ioannis Lydi ...; Ioannis Laurentii Lydi ...)
- Brit. Lib. Gen. cat. of ptd. books to 1975(Laurentius, Joannes Lydus)
- Oxford class. dict., 1970(Lydus, Ioannes Laurentius; Greek writer)
- Harper's dict. of class. lit. and antiq., c1923(Lydus, Ioannes Laurentius)
- Caimi, J. Burocrazia e diritto nel De magistratibus di Giovanni Lido, 1984:p. 1 (b. 490, d. ca. 565)
- Maas, M. John Lydus and the Roman past, 1991.
Wikipedia description:
John the Lydian or John Lydus (Greek: Ἰωάννης Λαυρέντιος ὁ Λυδός; Latin: Ioannes Laurentius Lydus) (c. AD 490 – c. 565) was a Byzantine administrator and writer on antiquarian subjects.
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