John the Lydian, “On the Roman months” – version 2.0 now online!
Regular readers may recall that Mischa Hooker translated John the Lydian’s four books On the Months
for us all a year or two back. The fourth book has 12 sections, one
for each month, and we also did the other three books. It’s a mass of
6th century antiquarianism, as the author tries to hold on to the Roman
heritage in a world that is fast becoming Byzantine.
At the time, Dr H’s translation was the only one into
any modern language. Another English translation did appear soon
after, but with very little circulation or impact; and not nearly as
good.
But Dr Hooker has not left the work alone. In fact
it turns out that he has continued to work on it since, revising his
translation and equipping it with a monster introduction and similarly
enormous appendix of similar materials. And he has sent a PDF of the
revised and combined version to appear here, as a nice little Christmas
present for us all.
Here it is:
I’ve also uploaded it to Archive.org here.
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