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Ancient Greek calendars, the Glossary

Various ancient Greek calendars began in most states of ancient Greece between autumn and winter except for the Attic calendar, which began in summer.^[1]

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Obsolete calendars
Time in Greece

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities is an English language encyclopedia first published in 1842.

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Aetolia

Aetolia (Aitōlía) is a mountainous region of Greece on the north coast of the Gulf of Corinth, forming the eastern part of the modern regional unit of Aetolia-Acarnania.

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Alpha

Alpha (uppercase, lowercase) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet.

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The Alps are one of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.

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Ancient Greek astronomy

Ancient Greek astronomy is the astronomy written in the Greek language during classical antiquity.

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Antikythera mechanism

The Antikythera mechanism is an Ancient Greek hand-powered orrery (model of the Solar System), described as the oldest known example of an analogue computer used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance.

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Argos, Peloponnese

Argos (Άργος; Ἄργος) is a city and former municipality in Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, and one of the oldest in Europe.

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Athens

Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.

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Attic calendar

The Attic calendar or Athenian calendar is the lunisolar calendar beginning in midsummer with the lunar month of Hekatombaion, in use in ancient Attica, the ancestral territory of the Athenian polis. Ancient Greek calendars and Attic calendar are Obsolete calendars.

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Boeotia

Boeotia, sometimes Latinized as Boiotia or Beotia (Βοιωτία; modern:; ancient) is one of the regional units of Greece.

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Byzantine calendar

The Byzantine calendar, also called the Roman calendar, the Creation Era of Constantinople or the Era of the World (Ἔτη Γενέσεως Κόσμουκατὰ Ῥωμαίους, also Ἔτος Κτίσεως Κόσμουor Ἔτος Κόσμου; 'Roman year since the creation of the universe', abbreviated as ε.Κ.), was the calendar used by the Eastern Orthodox Church from c.

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Chi (letter)

Chi (uppercase Χ, lowercase χ; χῖ) is the twenty-second letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Corinth

Corinth (Kórinthos) is a municipality in Corinthia in Greece.

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Crete

Crete (translit, Modern:, Ancient) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.

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Delphi

Delphi, in legend previously called Pytho (Πυθώ), was an ancient sacred precinct and the seat of Pythia, the major oracle who was consulted about important decisions throughout the ancient classical world.

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Elis

Elis or Ilia (Ηλεία, Ileia) is a historic region in the western part of the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece.

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Epidaurus

Epidaurus (Ἐπίδαυρος) was a small city (polis) in ancient Greece, on the Argolid Peninsula at the Saronic Gulf.

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Eponymous archon

In ancient Greece the chief magistrate in various Greek city states was called eponymous archon (ἐπώνυμος ἄρχων, epōnymos archōn).

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Epsilon

Epsilon (uppercase Ε, lowercase ε or ϵ; έψιλον) is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, corresponding phonetically to a mid front unrounded vowel or.

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Eta

Eta (uppercase, lowercase; ἦτα ē̂ta or ήτα ita) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the close front unrounded vowel,.

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Homer

Homer (Ὅμηρος,; born) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature.

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Intercalation (timekeeping)

Intercalation or embolism in timekeeping is the insertion of a leap day, week, or month into some calendar years to make the calendar follow the seasons or moon phases.

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Iota

Iota (uppercase Ι, lowercase ι) is the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Julian calendar

The Julian calendar is a solar calendar of 365 days in every year with an additional leap day every fourth year (without exception).

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Laconia

Laconia or Lakonia (Λακωνία) is a historical and administrative region of Greece located on the southeastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Locris

Locris (Lokrída; Lokrís) was a region of ancient Greece, the homeland of the Locrians, made up of three distinct districts.

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Macedonia (ancient kingdom)

Macedonia (Μακεδονία), also called Macedon, was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, which later became the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece.

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Manumission

Manumission, or enfranchisement, is the act of freeing slaves by their owners.

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Omega

Omega (-->uppercase Ω, lowercase ω; Ancient Greek ὦ, later ὦ μέγα, Modern Greek ωμέγα) is the twenty-fourth and last letter in the Greek alphabet.

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Omicron

Omicron (uppercase Ο, lowercase ο, όμικρον) is the fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Ordinal number

In set theory, an ordinal number, or ordinal, is a generalization of ordinal numerals (first, second, th, etc.) aimed to extend enumeration to infinite sets.

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Ozolian Locris

Ozolian Locris (Ὀζολία Λοκρίς) or Hesperian Locris (3) was a region in Ancient Greece, inhabited by the Ozolian Locrians (Ὀζολοὶ Λοκροί; Locri Ozoli) a tribe of the Locrians, upon the Corinthian Gulf, bounded on the north by Doris, on the east by Phocis, and on the west by Aetolia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_calendars

Also known as Epirotic calendar, Greek calendar, Hellenic Calendars, Hellenic calendar, Locrian calendar.

Ancient Greek calendars, the Glossary

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Obsolete calendars

Time in Greece

References