Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
December 27
December 27 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by 2 verified records spanning AD 486 to AD 537. 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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AD 486
Life on This Day
Two Advocates Cannot Delay a Case Because a Third Is Absent
On December 27, AD 486, a Greek-text imperial law ordered that two advocates already present in a case could not delay judgment by claiming that a third advocate was absent.
Sources
Primary evidence
- Codex Justinianus 2.7.19, Greek text
Modern scholarship
- University of Wyoming Annotated Justinian Code
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AD 537
Event That Shaped History
Justinian’s Hagia Sophia Is Inaugurated
On December 27, AD 537, Justinian’s new Hagia Sophia was inaugurated in Constantinople after less than six years of construction following the Nika revolt.
Sources
Primary evidence
- Procopius, Buildings, and the Hagia Sophia inauguration tradition
Modern scholarship
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- American Society of Civil Engineers
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