Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
January 31
January 31 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated 238 BC. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.
Across the centuries
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238 BC
Life on This Day
An Official Is Asked to Make Sure a Letter Is Delivered
On January 31, 238 BC, official Greek correspondence addressed to Asclepiades included an instruction to ensure that another letter reached its destination. The papyrus preserves the practical communication network behind Ptolemaic administration.
Sources
Primary evidence
- P.Hib. I 82
Modern scholarship
- British Library Archives and Manuscripts catalogue
- Modern edition of the Hibeh papyri
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