Your Day in the Ancient Greek World

March 3

March 3 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by 2 verified records spanning 323 CE to 421 CE. 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

  1. 323 CE

    Life on This Day

    Oxyrhynchus, Roman Egypt Economy & Trade High

    Three Neighbors Take Responsibility for a Tree

    A bronze-worker, linen dealer and reader agree to care for a newly planted persea tree beside their homes.

    Sources

    Primary evidence

    • P.Oxy. XLI 2969

    Modern scholarship

    • 4CARE papyrological artefact database

    Public links

  2. 421 CE

    Life on This Day

    Oxyrhynchus, Eastern Roman Egypt Economy & Trade High

    An Estate Manager Closes the Rent Books

    Flavius Phoebammon acknowledges that Aurelius Maximinus has handed over rents collected from cultivators, paid partly in produce and partly in money.

    Sources

    Primary evidence

    • P.Oxy. VIII 1134

    Modern scholarship

    • British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue

    Public links