Lydus, Johannes Laurentius, 490-approximately 565

LC control no.	n 82246814
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Lydus, Johannes Laurentius, 490-approximately 565 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Joannes Lydus Johannes Lydus, 490-approximately 565 Laurentius, Johannes Lydus, 490-approximately 565 Lido, Giovanni, 490-approximately 565 Lydus, Ioannes Laurentius, 490-approximately 565 Lydus, Johannes, 490-ca. 565 Lydus, Johannes Laurentius, 490-ca. 565 Lydus, John, 490-approximately 565
Associated country	Byzantine Empire
Birth date	0490
Death date	0565~
Place of birth	Philadelphia (Lydia)
Place of death	Constantinople
Field of activity	Neoplatonism Philosophy
Profession or occupation	Officials and employees Teachers
Found in	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. Brill's new Pauly online, 13 July 2015 (Iohannes Lydus; official and antiquarian writer; born in Philadelphia in Lydia in AD 490, died in Constantinople around AD 560; studied philosophy in Constantinople from 511 with the Neoplatonist Agapius and soon received an office in the praetorian prefecture; knew Latin, and was responsible for composing documents in this language, among other things. In c. 543 he was also given a teaching position at the imperial school on the Capitol of Constantinople)
Associated language	grc lat