{"id":98077,"date":"2026-01-01T04:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=98077"},"modified":"2025-09-23T21:57:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T01:57:31","slug":"the-consuls-and-the-start-of-a-roman-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/01\/01\/the-consuls-and-the-start-of-a-roman-year\/","title":{"rendered":"The consuls and the start of a Roman year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CGVw1Iir7GY?si=VG5eIkWYSCJLT_ER\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Adrian Goldsworthy. Historian and Novelist<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 1 Jan 2025<\/p>\n<p>For New Year&#8217;s day, we look at how the year started for the Romans, when from 153 BC onwards, the new consuls assumed office. There were rituals, sacrifices and ceremony, and then the start of the political year.<\/p>\n<p>To round off, some thoughts on what is planned for the year to come on this channel.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes, and for chickens read geese!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Goldsworthy. Historian and Novelist Published 1 Jan 2025 For New Year&#8217;s day, we look at how the year started for the Romans, when from 153 BC onwards, the new consuls assumed office. There were rituals, sacrifices and ceremony, and then the start of the political year. To round off, some thoughts on what is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[62,84,7,11],"tags":[1566,1111,572,855,1601,1345],"class_list":["post-98077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-government","category-history","category-religion","tag-adriangoldsworthy","tag-juliuscaesar","tag-leadership","tag-polytheism","tag-romanhellenism","tag-romanrepublic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pvT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98078,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98077\/revisions\/98078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}