Your Day in the Ancient Greek World

March 28

March 28 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by 3 verified records spanning 88 BCE to 364 CE. 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

  1. 88 BCE

    Life on This Day

    Pathyris, Ptolemaic Egypt Politics & Power High

    Pathyris Is Told to Stay Loyal

    Strategos Platon urges the inhabitants of Pathyris to remain loyal and support commander Nechtyris until he arrives.

    Sources

    Primary evidence

    • SB III 6300 / P.Lond. II 465 descr.

    Modern scholarship

    • British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue

    Public links

  2. 338 CE

    Life on This Day

    Oxyrhynchus, Roman Egypt Law & Civic Life High

    An Inheritance Dispute Reaches the Authorities

    A petition from Oxyrhynchus concerns a dispute over inherited property.

    Sources

    Primary evidence

    • P.Oxy. I 67 / P.Lond. III 754

    Modern scholarship

    • British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue

    Public links

  3. 364 CE

    Event That Shaped History

    Hebdomon, outside Constantinople, Eastern Roman Empire Politics & Power High

    Valens Is Raised to Augustus

    Valentinian I elevates his brother Valens to Augustus at the Hebdomon outside Constantinople.

    Sources

    Primary evidence

    • Late Roman imperial chronology and Ammianus Marcellinus

    Modern scholarship

    • De Imperatoribus Romanis, Valens

    Public links