The Roman Chronicles - The Architecture of Roman Time

Every date you write carries Rome's fingerprints.

January 1 exists because of a rebellion in Spain. July is named after a man who was stabbed to death in a theatre. The year starts when it does because a general needed to leave for war two months early. And the number of the year itself was calculated by a sixth-century monk who got the maths slightly wrong — and whose mistake we have been faithfully repeating ever since.

The Architecture of Roman Time is a free companion to The Titan Series — Roman Chronicles. It tells the story of the calendar you use every day: where it came from, who built it, who broke it, and who put it back together.

From the sacred day-lists of the early Republic — when the priests, not the politicians, decided which days were permitted for public life — to Julius Caesar's audacious 445-day year that reset the entire Western calendar, to the sixth-century monk whose Easter tables gave the modern world its year-numbering system, this book follows the full arc of how Rome constructed, fought over, and ultimately bequeathed its architecture of time to every civilisation that came after it.

Written in the same voice as the main series — direct, warm, grounded in scholarship, free of jargon — this companion illuminates the world the Titans inhabited. You do not need to have read the series to enjoy it. But if you have, a great deal that was background will suddenly have teeth.

This book is free. No strings. It is offered to readers of The Titan Series as a companion and a gift.

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Also in The Titan Series — Roman Chronicles:

Book 1: Julius Caesar · Book 2: Cleopatra VII · Book 3: Augustus