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Hellenic calendar is typically a lunisolar calendar and is based on the calendar of the Ancient Greeks. The tradition, rituals, beliefs and culture of ancient Athens finds an eloquent utterance in the structure of the Hellenic calendar. It was right after the June Solstice the uniformity of the Hellenic calendar was first experienced.
Before that there was no uniformed calendar in Greece. It was after the June Solstice when the star Sirius rose after the moment of dawn the astronomers reckoned it as the moment of the New Year and was the time when the ancient Greek calendar or the Hellenic calendar was first introduced systematically.
Historians later quite ideally pointed out that the onset of the roughest killing heat of summer is a counter-intuitive beginning point for the Hellenic calendar. The pioneer spiritual and political sites of Ancient Greece, started to calculate and assess the time and dates with the rising of the Sirius star hence Hellenic calendar became all the more common form of determining the dates in Olympia, Delphi,
Athens Epidaurus, and other Greek city-states with Mycenae origins. The Hellenic Calendar systems became the part of the most mystifying layers of culture of the ancient Greeks where the connecting link between Greece and the Hellenic calendar was typically the aura of the Minoan culture.
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