Romulean year

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The Capitoline Wolf suckles Romulus and Remus (these were later added to the figure)

With Romuleisches year called ancient historians each calendar year of the Roman calendar in the monarchy of the legendary Romulus before the legendary king Numa Pompilius is said to have modified towards the end of the eighth century BC, the Roman calendar.

There is no contemporary evidence for the Romulean year. According to tradition, it is said to have comprised the period from January to October as a ten-month year with a total of 304 days. The calculation of the length of the Romulean year is based as an anachronism on the information in the Julian calendar from Augustus in the year 8 BC. Chr.

The lunar year used by the Etruscans counted 295 to 296 days for ten months, the later modified Roman calendar for the period from Ianurius to October 297 days. On the basis of these specifications, the Romulean ten-month year turns out to be a subsequently created construct on an unhistorical basis .

literature

  • Jörg Rüpke : Calendar and Public: The History of Representation and Religious Qualification of Time in Rome . de Gruyter, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-11-014514-6 , p. 201.
  • Udo Scholz: To research the Roman calendar . In: Orientalia 59 , 1990, pp. 255-264.
  • Einar Gjerstad: Notes of the early Roman Calendar . In: Acta Archaeologica 32 . Copenhagen 1961, pp. 193-214.
  • Danielle Porte: Les donneurs de sacré: Le prêtre à Rome . Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-251-33806-3 , p. 133.