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This book is the first comprehensive study of the lunar Macedonian calendar in two decades. The mechanics of the calendar are examined in detail, and a new approach for reconstructing the sequence of intercalary months and years is proposed which, for the first time, permits a consistent interpretation of the papyrological data of the middle Ptolemaic period. It is shown that in c. 265 BC Ptolemy II deliberately set in motion a process to realign the calendar over an extended period, which ended early in the reign of Ptolemy IV. The results have implications for the origins of the financial year, the date of the Ptolemaieia, and the history of the Canopic reform of the Egyptian calendar, among other topics. Appendices consider the nature of Macedonian intercalation and the New Year outside Egypt.

Calendar, Greek. --- Calendar, Egyptian. --- Chronology, Greek. --- Chronology, Egyptian. --- Calendrier grec --- Calendrier égyptien --- Chronologie grecque --- Chronologie égyptienne --- Ptolemaic dynasty, --- Egypt --- Greece --- Egypte --- Grèce --- History --- Chronology. --- Chronology --- Histoire --- Chronologie --- Calendar, Greek --- Calendar, Egyptian --- Chronology, Greek --- Chronology, Egyptian --- Academic collection --- Calendrier égyptien --- Chronologie égyptienne --- Grèce --- Greek chronology --- Egyptian chronology --- Greek calendar --- Egyptian calendar --- Griechenland --- Hellas --- Yaṿan --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Kingdom of Greece --- Hellenic Republic --- Ancient Greece --- Ελλάδα --- Ellada --- Ελλάς --- Ellas --- Ελληνική Δημοκρατία --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grecia --- Grčija --- Hellada --- اليونان --- يونان --- al-Yūnān --- Yūnān --- 希腊 --- Xila --- Греция --- Gret︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Égypte --- Ägypten --- Egitto --- Egipet --- Egiptos --- Miṣr --- Southern Region (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Region (United Arab Republic) --- Iqlīm al-Janūbī (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Territory (United Arab Republic) --- Egipat --- Arab Republic of Egypt --- A.R.E. --- ARE (Arab Republic of Egypt) --- Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah --- Mitsrayim --- Egipt --- Ijiptʻŭ --- Misri --- Ancient Egypt --- Gouvernement royal égyptien --- جمهورية مصر العربية --- مِصر‎ --- مَصر‎ --- Maṣr --- Khēmi --- エジプト --- Ejiputo --- Egypti --- Egypten --- מצרים --- United Arab Republic --- Ptolemaic dynasty --- Ptolemaic dynasty, - 305-30 B.C. --- Egypt - History - 332-30 B.C. - Chronology --- Greece - History - Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C. - Chronology --- Calendriers lunaires --- Égypte --- Macédoine --- Alexandrie (Égypte) --- 332 av. J.-C.-640 (période gréco-romaine)