How do you read a Julian calendar?

Answer 1

The Roman calendar was not difficult to read, but it was different from ours and encompassed different measurements of time. For example, they did not name the days of the week and they did not have a week as we know it. The very basic points of a Roman calendar are 1) the Kalends, which is the first day of any month. 2)The nones, which was the 7h of the 31 day months and the 5th of the others. The Ides, which was the 15th of the 31 day months and the 13th of the others. It would take a volume to explain the Roman calendar in its entirety. If you need more info, just use your web browser and type in "Roman calendar". You will come up with several sites that will help you out with the details and may of them are printable too.

Answer 2

Very carefully. Seriously though, the Roman calendar was not difficult, just different. They did not have named days of a week, in fact they did not even have a week as we know it. As close as they came to our week was a nine day period between market days. The calendar was originally based on a lunar calendar and the days were counted backwards from three lunar points.

The Kalends was the first day of the month, the day of a new moon. The Nones were the first quarter of the moon and the Ides were the full moon. The days were counted backwards from these lunar phases. In Caesar's reforms, the Kalends remained the first day of the month, but there was a fixed date for the Nones and Ides. In a 31 day month, the nones fell on the seventh day and the ides on the 15th day. In all other months the nones fell on the 5th day and the ides on the 13th day. The number of days in the ides period remained at eight days, but the number of days in the nones and kalends could vary. There was also a term called pridie which was the day preceding one of these lunar points. For example, if you wanted to get the date of March 14th, it would be written pridie Id. Mart. If you wanted March 13th, it would be written ante diem III Id. Mart. (Remember that the Roman system of counting was inclusive)

Answer 3

A Julian calendar is the standard calendar used in the west that was updated by the Gregorian calendar in 1582, by the subtraction of 11 days

Answer 4

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