Archaeoastronomer Wrote:
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> I am not a great fan of the Sothic Cycle as it
> doesn't seem to work for astronomers when you
> check the dates,

I'm neither a fan of that, see it more as a deep distraction away from the more important topics and let's try to avoid that topic here.

> So you may think Caesar aligned Sirius to 1st
> January but this isn't true, as 46BC was the "Year
> of Confusion" being 445 days long, so within
> reason they were aligning dates to fall where they
> wanted, i can see Sosigenes and Cleopatra may have
> schemed and plotted how this would fall out!

I see, Sosigenes was the astronomer consultant to Cleopatra and also Caesar. That would make sense as he was definitely aware of the Sirius midnight culmination time during the year and may have brought that into the discussion as suggestion while Caesar was looking for something of similar importance to anchor his own calendar as Cleopatra already had in Egypt with the Isis new year ceremony.