Your Day in the Ancient Greek World

January 12

January 12 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 225. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.

Across the centuries

On This Day

  1. AD 225

    Life on This Day

    Philadelpheia, Arsinoite nome, Roman Egypt Family & Relationships High

    An Uncle Requests Guardianship of Two Orphaned Boys

    On January 12, AD 225, Marcus Lucretius Diogenes asked to be appointed legal guardian of the two underage sons of his deceased sister. The petition exposes the formal legal machinery surrounding family responsibility after a death.

    Sources

    Primary evidence

    • P.Diog. 18

    Modern scholarship

    • British Library Archives and Manuscripts catalogue

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