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That made me chuckle, but apparently it’s a bit more nuanced. According to Wikipedia: > It was named by the Roman Senate in honour of Roman general Julius Caes
by weberc2 7y ago
That made me chuckle, but apparently it’s a bit more nuanced. According to Wikipedia:
> It was named by the Roman Senate in honour of Roman general Julius Caesar, it being the month of his birth. Prior to that, it was called Quintilis, being the fifth month of the 10-month calendar.
This stuff is fascinating. Reminds me of how the Romance language weekdays are named after the Roman pantheon and the Germanic (including English) weekdays are named after the approximate germanic counterparts for those same Roman gods.
- jaldhar 7y agoThe Sanskrit names for the days of the week are named after the same planets. I think both the Indians and the Graeco-Romans originally got them from the Babylonians who were the authority for all things astronomical and astrological in the ancient world.