Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
January 21
January 21 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by 2 verified records spanning 245 BC to AD 384. 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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245 BC
Life on This Day
A Receipt Records Payment of a Beer Tax
On January 21, 245 BC, a Greek receipt acknowledged payment of a beer tax on behalf of a woman named Taembes. The tiny fiscal record preserves both an everyday commodity and the tax machinery surrounding it.
Sources
Primary evidence
- P.Hib. I 106
Modern scholarship
- British Library Archives and Manuscripts catalogue
- Modern edition of the Hibeh papyri
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AD 384
Event That Shaped History
Theodosius Orders Non-Nicene Clergy Expelled from Constantinople
On January 21, AD 384, an imperial law ordered Eunomian, Macedonian, Arian and Apollinarian clergy driven from Constantinople. Issued to the praetorian prefect Cynegius, the measure intensified the Theodosian government’s effort to enforce Nicene religious policy in the imperial capital.
Sources
Primary evidence
- Codex Theodosianus 16.5.13
Modern scholarship
- Modern studies of Theodosian legislation against Christian dissent
- Presbyters Project source record ER 2277
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