Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
January 6
January 6 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by 2 verified records spanning 107 BC to AD 380. Together, the entries below connect this calendar date with different moments in the ancient Greek world through historical and documentary evidence.
Across the centuries
On This Day
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107 BC
Life on This Day
A Debt of Eight Bronze Talents Is Declared Repaid
On January 6, 107 BC, a Greek acknowledgement recorded that a debt of eight bronze talents had been repaid. The receipt offers a compact glimpse of formal debt settlement in Ptolemaic Egypt.
Sources
Primary evidence
- P.Lond. II 888A
Modern scholarship
- British Library Archives and Manuscripts catalogue
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AD 380
Event That Shaped History
Theodosius Gives the Illyrian Prefect Power to Impose Massive Fines
On January 6, AD 380, an imperial constitution issued in the names of Gratian, Valentinian II and Theodosius I authorized praetorian prefects to impose fines of up to fifty pounds of gold for grave offenses. The law was addressed to Eutropius as praetorian prefect of Illyricum, whose jurisdiction under Theodosius included Macedonia.
Sources
Primary evidence
- Codex Justinianus 1.54.4
Modern scholarship
- Michael Kulikowski, The End of Roman Spain
- Prosopography and modern studies of Eutropius and Theodosian Illyricum
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