Talk:Hellenic calendar

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The year on Delos and in Boiotia, one for a long time Athens' subject and the other always Athens' neighbour, began midwinter and not midsummer, just like the modern calendar, so the opening sentence of entry needs adjusting. (sources given in Richard Hannah, Greek & Roman calendars, P73) Flounderer 12:08, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

The calendars of cities of Phokis, Delphi aside, also started in midwinter. The Spartan and Macedonian months started with the autumnal equinox. Catherine Trumpy's recent book on Greek months also contradicts this entry. The description of heliacal rising is incorrect, as the wikipedia entry shows. When you take out the midsummer start for all calendars then the follow-up on Minoan influence is clearly unsustainable, so a re-write from scratch may be necessary.

I'd be willing to re-write some of this, but it's difficult to write a generic hellenic calendar entry, particularly when compared to the Attic calendar entry. Perhaps a brief entry on the lunar nature of the calendar ref Aristophanes, the problems of intercalation ref Herodotus and Geminus and on parapegmata with links to other entries would be better. Realistically whatever I write will need addition, which I suppose is what wikipedia's about.

Robert Hannah's book is very good isn't it? --Alunsalt 21:47, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Aside from this issues of correctness pointed out above, some of this is incomprehensible and requires a retelling of the story to make it more logically palatable... Stevenmitchell 01:37, 17 October 2006 (UTC)