{"id":13461,"date":"2014-07-25T21:18:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T20:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=13461"},"modified":"2014-07-25T21:18:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T20:18:36","slug":"john-the-lydian-on-july-now-online-in-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2014\/07\/25\/john-the-lydian-on-july-now-online-in-english\/","title":{"rendered":"John the Lydian on &#8220;July&#8221; &#8211; now online in English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the last few months, each month we&#8217;ve had a chapter from a 6th century antiquarian on the festivals and days of the month.\u00a0 Our translation of John the Lydian, <em>De Mensibus<\/em> book 4, has now reached July.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As ever Mischa Hooker has done a super job on it, with copious footnotes. \u00a0This month contains a bunch of stuff about Julius Caesar; and a collection of accounts of the origins of the Nile.\u00a0 I learn from the footnotes that part of this is based on the remains of Seneca&#8217;s account, but continues where our manuscripts break off, probably from a more complete text.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here it is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/JohnLydus-4-07-July.pdf\">JohnLydus-4-07-July<\/a>\u00a0(PDF)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/JohnLydus-4-07-July.docx\">JohnLydus-4-07-July<\/a>\u00a0(Word .docx)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As usual, this is public domain.\u00a0 Do whatever you like with it, personal, educational or commercial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last few months, each month we&#8217;ve had a chapter from a 6th century antiquarian on the festivals and days of the month.\u00a0 Our translation of John the Lydian, De Mensibus book 4, has now reached July. As ever Mischa Hooker has done a super job on it, with copious footnotes. \u00a0This month contains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[946],"class_list":["post-13461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-john-the-lydian"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}