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Greek calendar

Greek calendar \Greek calendar\

  1. Any of various calendars used by the ancient Greek states.

    Note: The Attic calendar divided the year into twelve months of 29 and 30 days, as follows: 1. Hecatomb[ae]on (July-Aug.).

  2. Metageitnion (Aug.-Sept.).

  3. Bo["e]dromion (Sept.-Oct.).

  4. Pyanepsion (Oct.-Nov.).

  5. M[ae]macterion (Nov.-Dec.).

  6. Poseideon (Dec.-Jan.).

  7. Gamelion (Jan.-Feb.).

  8. Anthesterion (Feb.-Mar.).

  9. Elaphebolion (Mar.-Apr.).

  10. Munychion (Apr.-May).

  11. Thargelion (May-June).

  12. Scirophorion (June-July). A fixed relation to the seasons was maintained by introducing an intercalary month, ``the second Poseideon,'' at first in an inexact way, afterward in years 3, 5, 8, 11, 13, 16, 19 of the Metonic cycle. Dates were reckoned in Olympiads.

    2. The Julian calendar, used in the Greek Church.

Usage examples of "greek calendar".

It was the month, as I said, of Karneius, the new year having begun at midsummer as it does in the Greek calendar, and each man was due to receive his new cloak for the year, replacing the now-threadbare one he had worn for the previous four seasons.

At Marseilles his feast (with an octave) is celebrated 23 July, and his name is found in the Greek Calendar.