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In 45 B.C.E. one year after taking over as dictator and with the help of the Alexandrian Sosigenes, C. Julius Caesar changed the Roman calendar from an essentially lunar calendar that was often out of synch with the seasons to a solar calendar. At some point thereafter the month Quintilis became Julius, and Sextilis became Augustus. Caesar's calendar is the basis of the Julian calendar. |
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Click here to see typical pre-Julian Republican and Greek basic chronology, showing both the Roman and the Athenian festival calendars, both obviously lunar calendars. In 432 BCE Meton set up a parapegma (calendar board) in Athens to coordinate the Athenian festival, civil, and agricultural/star calendars. |
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Click here for Classic dates. Click here now for an online calendar 2009 with Greek quotes. Click here for a poem explaining the nature of calendars. |