The Romans named their years after who was elected Consul that year. There were two Consuls, so you’d say “in the consulship of Jones and Smith”. 59BC was Julius Caesar and some other guy. The other guy was so unimportant that Romans joked by calling it the consulship of “Julius and Caesar”.
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RGB3x3@lemmy.world 11 months agoOkay, honest question: what did they call it then, if anything?
Because it’s not like they planned on counting down to the future “messiah’s” birthday.
charonn0@startrek.website 11 months ago
positiveWHAT@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Humour like that makes ancient people so much more relatable.
TwanHE@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Some humour transcends lifetimes, we were carving dicks into walls before the first century.
Justas@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
“Three men, a greek, a roman and a celt each get an island.
The greek writes a book about flora and fauna of his island.
The roman, realising that the island does not need to be conquered, builds a house, a road to the shore and a statue to himself.
The celt starts a fight.”
Rinox@feddit.it 11 months ago
In more official settings they would also use the year “ab Urbe condita”, meaning “since the City’s founding” (city being Rome).
59BC should be around 698 aUc if my numbers are right.
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Depends on where in the world, but most dating systems with reginal, that is what year of what monarch/pharaoh/emperor’s reign.
StaySquared@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Depends on who’s calendar… haha
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You have to look at non-Christian calendars.
It was 2275 in Korea.
It was 265 of the 33rd dynasty in Egypt.
It was 2 of the 180th Olympiad in Greece.
More here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59_BC
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I like the Chinese version best
Holzkohlen@feddit.de 11 months ago
Damn, so Korea went back in time? Or what are they on now? Did they hit 40K yet? Do they count in dog years? Do they inflate their numbers so it sounds cooler? Have the halfed it, when they split the country in half? I demand answers Korea!
EddoWagt@feddit.nl 11 months ago
I now realise that I know absolutely nothing of Korean history
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 11 months ago
North Korea is at 113; they use their own calendar.
maculata@aussie.zone 11 months ago
None of them matter. They’re just funny jibber-jabber.