Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
November 25
November 25 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 30. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.
Across the centuries
On This Day
-
AD 30
Life on This Day
Zois Writes Her Brother About Bread and Alexandria
On November 25, AD 30, a woman named Zois wrote in Greek to her brother Ischyrion. She discussed sending an artaba connected with bread and then turned to his possible travel to Alexandria. The letter preserves ordinary family communication while modern scholars continue to debate the precise reading of one phrase.
Sources
Primary evidence
- P.Oxy. X 1291
Modern scholarship
- Nikos Litinas, Notes on Papyri: Styles and desires in P.Oxy. 10.1291, BASP 51 (2014)
- R. S. Bagnall and R. Cribiore, Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt
Public links