Heniautos

Naive ancient Attic calendar generator and calendar equation explorer.

Installation

pip install heniautos

Usage

Command Line

Generate a calendar for 416 BCE:

heniautos 416

In a Program

Generate a calendar for 416 BCE

import heniautos as ha
ha.athenian_festival_calendar(ha.bce_as_negative(416))

The Basics

Heniautos (ἐνιαυτός, Greek for ”the span of a year”) generates examples of possible Greek calendars, ancient or modern, and has features for exploring the calendar and working with calendar equations. It is hopefully useful for:

• Learning about and teaching the ancient Athenian and other Greek calendars
• Following along with often complex discussions of dating events in ancient Greek history
• Just having fun with questions like ”When would the City Dionysia be this year, if it was still being held.”

Heniautos also comes with a command-line application, heniautos, for generating calendars without any programming required.

Read the full documentation on Read the Docs