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Gif. The ancient greek calendar was complex and confusing. The attic calendar or athenian calendar is the calendar that was in use in ancient attica, the ancestral territory of the athenian polis.
The greeks loved sport and the olympic games were the biggest sporting event in the ancient calendar. It is sometimes called the greek calendar because of athens's cultural importance, but it is only one of many ancient greek calendars. Find the greek name day for every greek saint name on the greekboston.com name day calendar.
Full of blood, passion and extraordinary feats of athletic endeavour, the olympic games were the sporting, social and cultural highlight of the ancient greek calendar for almost 12 centuries.
Various ancient greek calendars began in most states of ancient greece between autumn and winter except for the attic calendar, which began in summer. In greece their calendar consisted of 354 days unlike the typical calendar would consist of 365 days! Courtesy of the greek orthodox archdiocese of america. The entire wiki with photo and video galleries for each article.