Talk:Roman calendar
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Lengths of months
This article repeats the urban myth of a 30 days sextilis, which is belied by republican fasti etc, and also contradicts what is said in the Julian Calendar article. Would anyone object if I put this right?
Francis Davey 12:24, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Anno Diocletiani and AD
"During the later empire, this system was used alongside the A.D. system (ANNO DIOCLETIANI) which used the year of accession of the Emperor Diocletian as the base year for counting purposes. Note that this should not be confused with the "A.D." system which the Christians introduced in mediaeval times (where "AD" stands for Anno Domini)"
- This is ERROR and MISTAKE.
This is ERROR and MISTAKE because "A.D." in mentioned context ("Diocletian") did not use in Roman Empire absolutely!
First: S.c. "Aera of Diocletiani" did not use in Roman Empire with the exeption of Egypt. But in Egyptian usage shortening for "Aera of Diocletiani" (! Not "Anno Diocletiani") was in Greek, Hellenic. In Greek date may use postfix etoys Diokletianoy (etohs Diokletianoh ), but in this case abridgment (Latin!) "A.D." is nonsense. (see use of "Diocletian" number of year, for example, in http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf204.xxv.iii.iii.xiv.html )
Second: Earliest mention of notation "Anni Diocletiani" (plural, not "Anno") we may meet in "LIBER DE PASCHATE" by Dionysius Exiguus (see http://hermes.ulaval.ca/~sitrau/calgreg/denys.html ) AFTER Roman Empire,
And, third - there are not documents, texts, coins, inscriptions etc from Roman Empire with shortening "A.D." (or "AD") as "Anno Diocletiani".
(About Roman Calendar and Aera Diokletiani - see E.J.Bickerman, Chronology of the Ancient World, London, 1969)
Please, eliminate the mistake.
Regards, Vladimir Krayushkin, Dr.Ing., vkr@royint.com
Until when?
Anyone know until when the Roman calendar was used? If you do, please add this to the article. – gpvos 15:12, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
Which Roman calendar? The article already explains it is mostly concerned with the pre-Julian calendar which was used until 45 BC. The articles on the Julian and Gregorian calendars explain when and how those came to be used. But both of them are still Roman calendars. So we still use the latest incarnation of the Roman calendar, and the date of its extinction is not yet known (and is hopefully a long way off). -- Chris Bennett