What is Ab urbe condita?
{{No sources|date=December 2024}} '''Ab urbe condita''' is a way to measure [[time]]. == Origin == The phrase is [[Latin language|Latin]]. It literally means ''from when the [[city]] was founded''. The city talked about is the city of [[Rome]]. This way of measuring time was not used in [[Classical antiquity]]. The first to have used it was the [[historian]] [[Orosius]], about 400 AD. == History == [[Marcus Terentius Varro]] found out that the city of Rome was founded 440 years after the fall of [[Troy]]. [[Romulus and Remus]] founded it. Varro thought that was in the spring of 753 BC. [[Marcus Porcius Cato Censorius]] thought that Rome was founded one year after the 7th [[Olympic Games]]. That would have been in 752 BC. == Other works == Ab urbe condita is also the main work of [[Titus Livius]], a [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] historian. {{Chronology}} {{Physics-stub}} [[Category:Calendars]]