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GSilky t1_j6er23c wrote

Reply to comment by SteampunkDesperado in Simple/Short/Silly History Questions Saturday! by AutoModerator

IIRC the Roman calendar before Julian hardly lived up to it's name. It was confusing at best.

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LateInTheAfternoon t1_j6eum10 wrote

The pre-Julian Republic calendar was an ordinary twelve-month lunisolar calendar, not unlike the ones in Greece and Mesopotamia. And it wasn't any less functional than those. According to tradition that twelve-month calendar went back to the time of king Numa. The weird ten-month calendar, which this question is about, was the one which it replaced.

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GSilky t1_j6fqf6g wrote

Gotcha, now I'm going down the rabbit hole on this lol

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