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Ancient and modern

A happy hebdomaversary to The Spectator

25 April 2020

9:00 AM

25 April 2020

9:00 AM

The Spectator’s 10,000th hebdomaversary (hebdomas, ‘a group of seven’: a weekly cannot have an anniversary) will surely be celebrated with the same enthusiasm that units of a thousand evoked in the ancients. But for them a thousandth-year celebration had to be symbolically significant. That required careful manipulation of dates.

For example, the really big moment in both Greek and Roman history was the Trojan War.

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