Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
February 9
February 9 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by 2 verified records spanning AD 151 to AD 474. 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 151
Life on This Day
A Father Registers His Twenty-Day-Old Son
On February 9, AD 151, Lysimachus alias Didymus notified the nomarch of Antinoopolis of the birth of his son Heraclides alias Valerius, then twenty days old. He supplied guarantors for his marriage and parentage and swore an oath.
Sources
Primary evidence
- P.Fam.Tebt. 33 = British Library Papyrus 1905, TM 20962
Modern scholarship
- British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue
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AD 474
Event That Shaped History
Zeno Is Made Co-Augustus
On February 9, AD 474, the young emperor Leo II elevated his father Zeno to the rank of co-Augustus. Zeno soon became the dominant emperor after Leo II’s death later that year.
Sources
Primary evidence
- Late Roman imperial chronology
Modern scholarship
- Hugh Elton, De Imperatoribus Romanis: Zeno
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