The calendar on the Antikythera mechanism and the Corinthian family of calendars
PA Iversen - Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of …, 2017 - JSTOR
This article explores the evidence for the Corinthian family of calendars in light of the
calendar recently discovered on the Metonic Spiral of the Antikythera Mechanism. It will be
argued that the calendar on the Antikythera Mechanism cannot be that of Syracuse, and that
it is likely to be the Epirote calendar, possibly adopted from Corinthian Ambrakia. It will also
be argued that the first month of this calendar, Phoinikaios, was ideally the month in which
the autumn equinox fell, and that the start-up of the calendar began shortly after the …
calendar recently discovered on the Metonic Spiral of the Antikythera Mechanism. It will be
argued that the calendar on the Antikythera Mechanism cannot be that of Syracuse, and that
it is likely to be the Epirote calendar, possibly adopted from Corinthian Ambrakia. It will also
be argued that the first month of this calendar, Phoinikaios, was ideally the month in which
the autumn equinox fell, and that the start-up of the calendar began shortly after the …
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