When it comes to advocacy for the arts, passion can be as destructive as it can be constructive. But there are lessons to be ...

Gods, kings and numbers are involved What’s in a name? Have you ever wondered about the origins of month names? Some months, ...

Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit is bringing Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” to the D — quite literally. The theatre is reimagining the classic play in modern times, set in a Detroit high ...

But before the new calendar (kinda) fixed things, there was still a problem to fix; the year was still out of line with the seasons. In order to rectify this, Caesar added several months to 46 BCE.

Magnolia Theatre Company presents an all-female version of William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" April 10-13 at the PNC Arts Annex in downtown Dayton.

As, therefore, the present calendar is the same in essentials as that instituted by Julius and Augustus Cæsar some 2000 years ago, it must have come as a surprise, possibly a shock, to many ...

In 45 BC, for the first time in history, the New Year was celebrated on January 1, when the Julian calendar came into effect. This is recalled by history.com. Soon after becoming Roman dictator, ...

Recognizing the need for reform, Julius Caesar, with the help of the Greek astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria, introduced the Julian calendar in 45 B.C. This calendar abandoned the lunar model in ...