The calendar governed court dates, rents, religious rites, elections, loan payments, and political terms. Yet by Caesar’s time, it had slipped badly out of step with the sun. Harvests no longer ...
We probably won’t think of it. But whether it’s July, Juillet, Julio, or myriad other versions, this month is for Julius Caesar in much of the globe, for the general and statesman who gave us 365 days ...