More Than One Calendar
Athenians lived in fact under a number of simultaneous calendars, used to fix days for different purposes. How much each calendar meant to an individual must have depended on how they lived. They may be set out as follows:
- A festival calendar of 12 months based on the cycle of the moon
- A democratic state calendar of 10 arbitrary months
- An agricultural calendar of seasons using star risings to fix points in time
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