Fasti Antiates

Roman calendar

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The Fasti Antiates is an incomplete pre-Caesarian, Republican calendar discovered at Antium (modern Anzio) dating from after 100 BCE. It reflects a period of transition between rural and urban life in ancient Rome. This calendar, along with others, shows attempts to reconcile the solar and lunar years, drawing on Babylonian calculations. It is possible to detect very ancient elements within these calendars, including a pre-Etruscan 10-month solar year. The names of months like April and June in their Roman forms originate from Etruria. The festivals recorded in the Fasti Antiates indicate a shift where many forms of worship previously maintained by families and farms were taken over by the Roman state.1

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…incomplete pre-Caesarian, Republican calendar, the Fasti Antiates, discovered at Antium (Anzio); it dates from after 100 bce. It is possible to detect in these calendars much that is very ancient, including a pre-Etruscan 10-month solar year. However, the basis of the calendars, in their surviving form, is later, since it…
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…incomplete pre-Caesarian, Republican calendar, the Fasti Antiates, discovered at Antium (Anzio); it dates from after 100 bce. It is possible to detect in these calendars much that is very ancient, including a pre-Etruscan 10-month solar year. However, the basis of the calendars, in their surviving form, is later, since it…
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