Polemius Silvius
Polemius Silvius (
Background
Polemius was among the Christian cultural elite
Polemius was assigned to
In Polemius's calendar, the word
The calendar
The format used by Polemius for the most part followed the conventions of Roman calendars, with days arranged in parallel columns under the name of the month, and each day noted on a separate line. Column 1 numbers the days of the month. Column 2 identifies any special days, not only traditional Roman and Christian holidays, but also the birthdays of emperors, and days when
Because the Roman calendar had traditionally served a didactic purpose,
- emperors and usurpers;
- the Roman provinces;
- animal names, spread out over two months;
- a table for phases of the moon(not extant);
- buildings and topographical features of Rome;[21]
- fabulae poeticae ("poets' tales");
- a breviary of Roman history;
- "a register of animal voices";
- weights and measures;
- meters of poetry(not extant);
- a survey of philosophical sects (not extant).
Lost portions are known only from the introductory synopsis.[22] For each month, the calendar also presents the equivalent Hebrew, Egyptian, Athenian, and Greek names.[23]
List of Provinces
Polemius Silvius also wrote a list of Late Roman provinces, which
References
- ^ Giusto Traina, 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire (Princeton University Press, 2009, from the original Italian edition of 2007), p. 180.
- ^ Mary Beard, J.A. North, and S.R.F. Price, Religions of Rome: A Sourcebook (Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 69.
- ^ J.N. Adams, The Regional Diversification of Latin, 200 BC–AD 600 (Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 295.
- ^ David Paniagua Aguilar, "Adis: A Ghost Latin Zoological Term," Bulletin Du Cange 65 (2007), p. 227.
- ^ Traina, 428 AD, p. 180.
- ^ Adams, Regional Diversification, p. 295.
- ^ Traina, 428 AD, p. 180.
- ^ Traina, 428 AD, p.180.
- ^ Faith Wallis, "Medicine in Medieval Calendar Manuscripts," in Manuscript Sources of Medieval Medicine: A Book of Essays (Garland, 1995), pp. 106–107.
- ^ Michele Renee Salzman, On Roman Time: The Codex Calendar of 354 and the Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity (University of California Press, 1990), p. 235.
- ^ Salzman, On Roman Time, p. 4.
- ^ Wallis, "Medicine in Medieval Calendar Manuscripts," pp. 106–107.
- ^ Bruce Eastwood, Ordering the Heavens: Roman Astronomy and Cosmology in the Carolingian Renaissance (Brill, 2007), p. 269.
- ^ Faith Wallis, Bede: The Reckoning of Time (Liverpool University Press, 1999), p. 52.
- ^ Wallis, Bede, p. 52.
- ^ Adams, Regional Diversification, pp. 295ff.
- ^ A.D. Lee, Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook (Routledge, 2000), p. 146.
- ^ Michael Maas, John Lydus and the Roman Past (Routledge, 1992), p. 53.
- ^ Salzman, On Roman Time, p. 139.
- ^ Salzman, On Roman Time, p. 14.
- ^ For examples of the kinds of information Polemius provides, see Lawrence Richardson, A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992), passim.
- ^ Lists as described by Aguilar, "Adis," p. 227; Adams, Regional Diversification, p. 295.
- ^ Wallis, Bede, p. 42.
- ^ Laterculus Polemii Silvii
- ^ Orcades provincia