Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
November 24
November 24 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by 2 verified records spanning AD 9 to AD 380. 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 9
Life on This Day
A Poll-Tax Payment Is Recorded on Elephantine
On November 24, AD 9, an ostracon from Elephantine recorded an installment of the poll tax under Tiberius. The surviving receipt preserves the amount and the bureaucratic habit of documenting payments on inexpensive pottery sherds.
Sources
Primary evidence
- Ostracon Cairo EM CG 9711
Modern scholarship
- Elephantine: Localizing 4000 Years of Cultural History, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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AD 380
Event That Shaped History
Theodosius I Enters Constantinople
On November 24, AD 380, Emperor Theodosius I entered Constantinople. His arrival immediately brought the empire’s religious dispute into the capital and set up a direct confrontation with the city’s Homoian bishop Demophilus.
Sources
Primary evidence
- Late antique ecclesiastical and imperial chronology
Modern scholarship
- The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Cambridge University Press
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