Polemius Silvius

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Polemius Silvius was a Roman writer of the 5th century AD.

Polemius Silvius put together a festival calendar in 448/449. This is dedicated to the Bishop of Lyon , Eucherius , and is preserved in just one manuscript. Some pagan elements are left out, but Christian elements are added. A list of the Roman provinces , especially the Gallic provinces, as well as a listing of the Roman emperors up to Theodosius II and Valentinian III form an appendix . (“Nomina omnium principum Romanorum”), the buildings and topographical features of Rome and the animal names as well as a brief historical overview since the flood (“Breviarium temporum”).

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  • Origo Gentis Romanorum - Polemius Silvius - Narratio de Imperatoribus. Edited by Bruno Bleckmann et al. (= Small and fragmentary historians of late antiquity . Volume B 5–7). Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2017, pp. 141-239 (scientific edition of the Roman imperial list and the historical outline since the Flood, with extensive commentary).
  • Polemii Silvii Latercvlvs. Edited by David Paniagua (= Fonti per la Storia dell'Italia medievale . Antiquitates, Volume 51). Sede dell'Istituto Palazzo Borromini, Rome 2018, ISBN 978-88-980-7984-1 (scientific edition of the entire work with a very detailed introduction to the handwritten tradition).

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