Topics of discussion in my book seemed to me to obviously raise a question, but the author seems not to have agreed, cause he doesn't directly address it
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Ancient Greeks paid some attention to birthdays, but not as anniversaries, not yearly birthdays. Instead, they tracked and had minor celebrations every month, on the day of the month they were born on. For example, the 10th of every month.
Cool, I didn't know that.
I don't know the answer to your question, but I guess it depends whether they felt like they were celebrating the date of their birth, or the fact of getting a year older. Like in our culture, it's definitely becoming a year older that we're marking, so people born on Feb 29 celebrate on Feb 28 in non-leapyears (Pirates of Penzance aside).
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Cool, I didn't know that.
I don't know the answer to your question, but I guess it depends whether they felt like they were celebrating the date of their birth, or the fact of getting a year older. Like in our culture, it's definitely becoming a year older that we're marking, so people born on Feb 29 celebrate on Feb 28 in non-leapyears (Pirates of Penzance aside).
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