Good news. I have today received the first draft of the translation of “February” from John the Lydian’s On the months (De mensibus) book 4. It’s a cracker. How this text has avoided being translated before I do not know. The footnotes added by the translator are also very, very useful. To read this stuff is a liberal education. I will post the final version online when it is ready.
Also in the works is a translation of a curious text on the Seven Sages, attributed to Athanasius but in reality part of the gnomological tradition. In this the sages predict the coming of Christ. I have the PDF, but need a Word document so that I can post it here. It’s a useful piece, showing how the Greeks in the Middle Ages created a rival “pagan prophets of Jesus” tradition to stand alongside the Jewish prophecies in the Old Testament.
Hi Roger,
Off-topic, sorry. Are you aware of the recently-discovered Mithraeum in the basement of the Crypta Balbi in Rome?
(Year 2000): “Daniele Manacorda of Roma Tre University found another Mithraeum in Rome, located in the Crypta Balbi at the southern end of the Campus Martius. This Mithraeum was built in the early 3rd century and used until the late 4th century. The temple has the typical Mithraic structure, though the cult niche has not yet been found. A fragment of a third-century tauroctony was discovered.”