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Was there a Hellenic/Roman "weekend" in antiquity? The seven day work week based around Jewish/Christian belief wasn't adopted until much later so what did their schedule look like. Did they have an equivalent to the Sabbath? Or was every day business as usual save for a festival?

by /u/RexAddison in /r/AskHistorians

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