Ancient Greek calendars | Wikipedia audio article

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00:01:14 1 Calendars by region
00:01:24 1.1 Aetolian
00:02:44 1.2 Argolian
00:03:05 1.3 Attic
00:03:48 1.4 Boeotian
00:04:30 1.5 The Antikythera mechanism calendar
00:05:25 1.6 Cretan
00:06:07 1.7 Delphic
00:06:45 1.8 Elian
00:07:12 1.9 Epidaurian
00:07:52 1.10 Laconian
00:08:31 1.11 Locris
00:09:16 1.12 Macedonian
00:10:04 1.13 Rhodian
00:10:49 1.14 Sicilian
00:11:22 1.15 Thessalian
00:12:14 2 See also



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SUMMARY
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The various ancient Greek calendars began in most states of ancient Greece between Autumn and Winter except for the Attic calendar, which began in Summer.
The Greeks, as early as the time of Homer, appear to have been familiar with the division of the year into the twelve lunar months but no intercalary month Embolimos or day is then mentioned, with twelve months of 354 days. Independent of the division of a month into days, it was divided into periods according to the increase and decrease of the moon.
Thus, the first day or new moon was called Noumenia. The month in which the year began, as well as the names of the months, differed among the states, and in some parts even no names existed for the months, as they were distinguished only numerically, as the first, second, third, fourth month, etc.
Of primary importance for the reconstruction of the regional Greek calendars is the calendar of Delphi, because of the numerous documents found there recording the manumission of slaves, many of which are dated both in the Delphian and in a regional calendar.