Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
October 23
October 23 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 152. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.
Across the centuries
On This Day
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AD 152
Life on This Day
A Man Applies to Lease Public Land for One Year
On October 23, AD 152, Cornelius Aphynchis applied to the strategos Apollonius for a one-year lease of public land in the Hermopolite nome. His subscription survives with the Greek application. The record captures the formal route by which an individual sought temporary use of state-controlled land.
Sources
Primary evidence
- P.Lond. III 1227 = TM 22848; British Library Papyrus 1227
Modern scholarship
- British Library Archives and Manuscripts catalogue
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