Calendars in Antiquity. Empires, States, and Societies

List of Tables

• second centuryBCE–second centuryCE 1.1 Ordinary and intercalated years at Athens, late


• 1.2 Ordinary and intercalated years at Athens, third centuryBCE


• 2.1 Intercalations in the neo-Babylonian period


• 2.2 Intercalations under Cyrus, Cambyses, and (early) Darius I


• 2.3 The Saros Canon and the optimal 19-year cycles


• 2.4 Intercalations under Darius I, Xerxes, and Artaxerxes I 108 –


• 2.5 Intercalations in the later Achaemenid and Seleucid periods 112 –


• 2.6 Babylonian intercalations in the Parthian period


• 2.7 Intercalation schemes in the Babylonian calendar


• 4.1 Republican and Julian month lengths


• 5.1 Double dates in Ptolemy’sAlmagest


• 5.2 Seleucid months


• 5.3 The Syrian-Antiochene calendar


• 5.4 The Egyptian calendar in the Augustan period 266 –


• 5.5 The calendar months of Salamis


• 5.6 The calendar of Asia and its variants according to thehemerologia 280 –


• 5.7 The calendar of Heliopolis in thehemerologia