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A reproduction of the Fasti Antiates Maiores, a painted wall-calendar from the late Roman Republic Another reproduction of the fragmentary Fasti Antiates Maiores (c. 60 BC), with the seventh and eighth months still named Quintilis ("QVI") and Sextilis ("SEX") and an intercalary month ("INTER") in the far right-hand column
In the old Roman calendar (until perhaps as late as 153 BC), the mensis Martius ("Mars' Month") was the first month of the year. It is one of the few months to be named for a god, Mars, whose festivals dominate the month.
In Cassandra Clare's The Shadowhunter Chronicles, the counterpart of Jace Herondale from an alternate dimension called Thule chooses the name "Janus" for himself after the Roman god. Janus particles are engineered micro- or nano-scopic particles possessing two distinct faces which have distinct physical or chemical properties.
Ianuarius is conventionally thought to have taken its name from Janus, the dual-faced god of beginnings, openings, passages, gates and doorways, [1] but according to ancient Roman farmers' almanacs Juno was the tutelary deity of the month. [2]: 51
After that time, it was the third month, following Februarius and preceding Aprilis . Martius was one of the few Roman months named for a deity, Mars, who was regarded as an ancestor of the Roman people through his sons Romulus and Remus. March marked a return to the active life of farming, military campaigning, and sailing.
January (in Latin, Ianuarius) is named after Janus, the god of beginnings and transitions in Roman mythology. [ 1 ] Traditionally, the original Roman calendar consisted of 10 months totaling 304 days, winter being considered a month-less period.
In many languages, the names given to the seven days of the week are derived from the names of the classical planets in Hellenistic astronomy, which were in turn named after contemporary deities, a system introduced by the Sumerians and later adopted by the Babylonians from whom the Roman Empire adopted the system during late antiquity. [1]
In his poem on the Roman calendar, Ovid has three goddesses present three different derivations of the name Iunius. Juno asserts that the month is named for her. Juventas ("Youth") pairs Iunius with Maius: the former, she says, comes from junior, "a younger person", in contrast to maiores or the "elders" for whom May was named. Juno's own name ...