Episode CXVIII - The Roman Calendar
Emperors of Rome
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How to Work Out a Month's Year
The Roman year was 304 days long. The second king of rome, numa, increased this to 355 days. This got the romans into trouble because their year went out of wack. They had to keep adding an inter calculary month. So until forties b c e, about hundreds of years of this calendar going wrong. And that is not enough for the 365 and a little bit yearye - so their calendar goes very, very wrong.
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