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Episode 18: Keeping Time With The Romans

The History of English Podcast

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The History of the Roman Calendar

By the time of caesar, the whole calendar was completely out of phase with the seasons. It was actually an entire season off. So caesar employed the greek astronomer seciginus to come up with a plan to revent the calendar. And this is the calendar which caesar adopted on january first, forty five b c and which we still know to day as the julian calendar. But two more revisions were later made to the calendar by pope gregory the eighth in the 15 hundreds,. thereby giving us the modern gregorian calendar. Now i have repeatedly expressed the idea that modern english is at its core a blend of germanic, old english and lat

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