Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
July 20
July 20 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by 2 verified records spanning 356 BC to AD 116. 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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356 BC
Event That Shaped History
Alexander the Great Is Born at Pella
Ancient tradition dates Alexander’s birth to the sixth day of Hecatombaeon in 356 BC. A modern Cambridge chronology converts that civic date to July 20 while the exact modern equivalent remains reconstructed.
Sources
Primary evidence
- Plutarch, Alexander 3
Modern scholarship
- Modern Cambridge chronology of Alexander
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AD 116
Life on This Day
A Tax Receipt Combines Poll Tax with Other Fiscal Charges
On July 20, AD 116, a Greek ostracon recorded poll tax together with charges connected to prison guards and river-police boats.
Sources
Primary evidence
- O.Berlin 34
Modern scholarship
- Texts and Scripts from Elephantine catalogue
Public links