John the Lydian

490–600

6th-century Byzantine administrator and antiquarian scholar

writer · civil servant · historian

Born in Philadelphia

Contemporaries

People who walked the earth at the same time as John the Lydian:

Muhammad (571–632)
Abu Bakr (573–634)
Justinian I (482–565)
Gregory I (540–604)
Uthman ibn Affan (574–656)
Aryabhata (476–550)
Benedict of Nursia (480–547)
Boethius (480–524)

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