Hellenic Calendars

[Hellenic_Witch]

2008 Hellenic Calendars:

http://www.winterscapes.com/kharis/calendars.htm

I wish I had known about these for 2007!

[Agaliha]

There's also this one online:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/3310/
Sannion's Sanctuary lists it as a "Good calendar site"
:)

And one about festivals:
http://www.winterscapes.com/kharis/calendar.htm

[Hellenic_Witch]

The second link you posted is identical to the one I shared in the original post.

[odd_duck71]

I found a free printable calendar at http://www.hellenion.org/calendar.pdf

The one for 2007 is up now, but I'm guessing they will do one for next year too.

[Agaliha]

The second link you posted is identical to the one I shared in the original post.
:nyah: Oops. Yeah, it is.
I found another one, but for some reason when I copied the link, it didn't stay. So it pasted the one I had before, the one you posted. I'll try to find it again.

[ZoeMc]

Hellenion always leaves a link to the calendar from our homepage. We have the 2009 one done.
http://www.hellenion.org/

[*~Amora~*]

One of the nice things about the Hellenion calendar is that one of the 12 Olympians is celebrated per month on the same day by the community with libation.

[Anteros]

Those are awesome! I usually spend an hour after getting a new calendar marking all the festivals and sacrifice days :weirdsmil

[ZoeMc]

you should check out our new HTML calendar (in progress, the front page isn't pretty yet)

http://www.hellenion.org/calendar/

but the festival pages are

[YoungSoulRebel]

Those are awesome! I usually spend an hour after getting a new calendar marking all the festivals and sacrifice days :weirdsmil

I hear ya'. I, on the other hand, when left to my own devices can be a lazy, lazy man -- sometimes to the point of spending more money than necessary. I'm already buying two calendars, as it is (a day planner for my "messenger bag" [actually, it was marked as an Israeli paratrooper bag, at the army surplus], and a wall calendar for my computer room. Sarah/Oinokohoe is still doing the Hellenic calendars for sale, and I'm planning on buying one on the first (late, I know, but there was a rare record on eBay...); she's using CafePress this year, and doing them as spiral-bound books (you can't personalise their calendar creator), so unlike the '08 calendars, they can't be done up custom.

I like that the Hellenion calendars are free, though.

Also, I've read in several places that "the ancients" hardly had just one calendar that was used for everything. There were civic calendars devised by heads of the city-states, agricultural calendars, and religious festival calendars. I see the Gregorian/CE/AD as my "civic" calendar and the continuing ancient Attic calendar as a religious calendar. A few years ago, I was seeing arguments on one Hellenic e-mail list (forget which one) that there's no point in having an Hellenic calendar "cos the ancients only had the one calendar and nobody else uses more than one calendar" -- both parts of that statement are pretty false, cos even among more "mainstream" religions, well, Catholics have all sorts of Saint Feast Days that aren't on mainstream store-bought calendars, Easter is a mobile holiday, Jews and Muslims have completely separate religious calendars, and the Chinese have their own traditional calendar and use the Gregorian as a political calendar, and these are just a few examples.

Of course, I still alter the Hellenic calendar(s) I get, cos I'm learning a little more about Boeotian/Thespian traditions, and one thing that I have learned about their calendar is that their names for the month were different than the Attic names -- there isn't much surviving information about Thespiae/Boeotia's practises, but I try to keep an eye out for what archaeologists can piece back together. I still recognise a lot of Attic and some Spartan holidays, mainly cos it just makes sense that certain things would have spread to there over time.