Julius Caesar was believed to have messed up the months in a year, but was trying to fix the solar calendar, resulting in one ...

Yet today, the only reference you will find to her in pop culture is as a minor character in the hack-and-slash video game Dante’s Inferno (where she is called “the greediest woman in all of Rome”).

S ome years seem to zip by in the blink of an eye, while others seem to drag on for far longer. But some, like leap years, ...