kata theoncalendars in the Hellenistic period, and some regularization of the
civil calendars under Seleucid influence, particularism was and remained a
dominant feature of Greek calendars, reflecting the long-standing political
disunity of the Greek cities and, in Samuel’s words, the vitality of their local
traditions. As we shall see in the next chapters, it is only in the more
homogeneous, larger-scale kingdoms of Mesopotamia and Egypt, and later
in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Empires, that uniformity of calendrical
practice became established and throve.
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