HIST 3125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Tropical Year, Epiktetos, List Of Ancient Macedonians
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Lecture 11: athletics in greek thought and culture. A polis and other city-state would have its own system of recording time. In athens, for example, they named the year after the archon. In rome, for example, they named a year after the 2 consuls of that year. Although most ancient calendars were lunar, the months were named differently. And different calendars made different adjustments to keep in line with the solar year (like our modern-day leap years) The same name for the same month was often used by several city-states, but that month could occur at different times in those different calendars. Thus, it was extremely difficult for an individual in one city-state to compare with precision the dating system of another city-state; this is what made the olympic victors" list is so important -> it was international and independent. The first list of olympic victors was compiled by hippias of elis in 420 bc.
