5th century Roman author
Polemius Silvius (fl. 5th century) was the author of an annotated Julian calendar that attempted to integrate the traditional Roman festival cycle with the new Christian holy days.[1] His calendar, also referred to as a laterculus or fasti, dates to around 448–449.[2] He was active in southeastern Gaul.[3]
- ^ Giusto Traina, 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire (Princeton University Press, 2009, from the original Italian edition of 2007), p. 180.
- ^ Mary Beard, J.A. North, and S.R.F. Price, Religions of Rome: A Sourcebook (Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 69.
- ^ J.N. Adams, The Regional Diversification of Latin, 200 BC–AD 600 (Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 295.