I know about the way Romans counted time. Isn’t also in the Bible, the year Jesus was born given as the year x of the reign of Augustus? Later, the pope who established the AD counting had lots of struggle summing up all the years of the emperors without counting some years twice.
Yep! In the Empire, there were often numerous consuls in a year instead of just two (being rotated out as a kind of ‘gift’ from the Emperor) so the norm for counting the year changed to how many years since the ruling Emperor came into power.
Funny how some things we take for granted, like an unborked date system, are actually innovations, and far from timeless (ha).
I know about the way Romans counted time. Isn’t also in the Bible, the year Jesus was born given as the year x of the reign of Augustus? Later, the pope who established the AD counting had lots of struggle summing up all the years of the emperors without counting some years twice.
No, it isn’t. Descriptions of when he was born are vague and contradictory.
Indeed, e.g. the text of the Lukas Evangelium isn’t that precise as I’ve thought I remember it.
Yep! In the Empire, there were often numerous consuls in a year instead of just two (being rotated out as a kind of ‘gift’ from the Emperor) so the norm for counting the year changed to how many years since the ruling Emperor came into power.
Funny how some things we take for granted, like an unborked date system, are actually innovations, and far from timeless (ha).
TY, I didn’t know, there were still consules in the Roman Empire.
Yes, a continuous calendar system makes things a lot easier.