2007-05-13 11:31:30 · 13 answers · asked by linzabelle_hi5 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Julius Ceasar in the 50 BC's, for instance the Month of July is named after Julius.
2007-05-13 11:36:36 · answer #1 · answered by Matt 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Saturday is Roman origin, from Saturn, the Roman god.
Sunday is named after the Sun.
Monday is named after the Moon.
Tuesday is named after the Nordic god Tyr.
Wednesday is named after the Nordic god Odin (or Wodin).
Thursday - Nordic god Thor.
Friday - the Germanic goddess Frige.
January is named after the Roman god Janus.
February - the Roman purification ritual Februa.
March - the Roman god Mars.
April - difficult, this. It might be after the goddess Aphrodite, or derived from the Latin word 'aperire', meaning 'to open'.
May - the Greek goddess Maia.
June - the Roman goddess Juno.
July - Julius Caesar.
August - Augustus Caesar.
September - the seventh month.
October - the eighth month.
November - the ninth month.
December - the tenth month.
No one person 'invented' these names. It appears that the days of the week were influenced mainly by Nordic religious tradition, while the months were more down to the Romans.
2007-05-13 20:54:52 · answer #2 · answered by john g 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is traditional. January, because of Januarius, the two-faced god who faces forward and backward. March = Mars July = Julius Caesar August = Octavius Augustus Caesar. September = 7 October = 8 November = 9 December = 10. Sunday = sun day Monday = moon day Wednesday = Wotan's day Thursday = Thor's day Friday = Freitag's day. Saturday = Saturn's day.
In the time of Charlemagne, about AD 800, he renamed the months for functions. For example, May was brachmanoth, ground-breaking month, when one had to break ground and plow the fields.
In the French Revolution of 1789, they renamed all the months new. For example, Thermidor was a hot month in July. People call a political conservative movement the "Thermidor pull back."
2007-05-13 18:50:17 · answer #3 · answered by steve_geo1 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Day and month names are usually of the gods and goddesses.
Thursday is for Tor [Thor] Norse God
Monday is for Moon - the Moon Goddess
Months were often named after Roman Emperors. For example, August = Augustus. October is based upon the word for ten in Greek = octo and so on.
2007-05-14 04:09:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The months were named by romans
Original months were
January - janus (roman god that look both into the past a future, he had 2 heads)
Feburary - I forget
March - believe its for Mars
April - see feb
May - see feb
June - see feb
September - seventh month
October - eight month
November - ninth month
December - tenth month
July and August were added i believe during Augustus' reign. July for Ceaser and August for him. ( that also through off the last 4 months names)
I beleive most of the days of the week are named after Norse Gods
The only one i remember off the top of my head is Thursday - is Thor's day
2007-05-13 18:48:26 · answer #5 · answered by jalopina98 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
well they're derived from history. thursday is from thor's day. thor was a viking god. friday - freya's day, another viking god. saturday from saturn day - that is derived from a roman god. march is from mars, another roman god, july from julius ceasar, a roman emperor who was made a god when he died. june from jupiter, another roman god. the roman gods were also the inspiration ehind naming the planets. venus was the god of love, jupiter was the head god - the roman equivalent of zeus, mars was the messenger god and so on. oh and tuesday is from tiwes day, again viking in inspiration.
the weekdays are derived from gods that are particular to great britain - vikings came here in the last millenium (early). weekdays differ in europe. the months are mainly derived from roman gods, as romans were considered a great aspect of european history. but the romans nicked their gods from the greeks, the civilisation before theirs, and they were te real sophists and philosphers, romans wanted to be like that but were just farmers that got powerful. greeks "borrowed" alot from the egyptians. so the ideas for the names of the days and months could have come anywhere
2007-05-13 18:41:47 · answer #6 · answered by DesertRose 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not invention. They named it first when they cannot count. Does ten days a week, and 3 weeks a month sounds absurd?
2007-05-13 18:39:38 · answer #7 · answered by RexRomanus 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Roman Empors
2007-05-13 18:33:40 · answer #8 · answered by courtney t 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Romans.
2007-05-13 19:04:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Romans, mostly; like `Thursday` was Thor`s day - the god of war; `Sunday` the day to worship the sun.
Mostly rubbish of course, as all myths, legends etc are.
2007-05-14 04:29:13 · answer #10 · answered by Montgomery B 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋