Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
October 14
October 14 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 133. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.
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AD 133
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A Father’s Attempt to Remove His Married Daughter Reaches Court
On October 14, AD 133, proceedings before the epistrategus Paconius Felix considered a father’s attempt to remove his married daughter from her husband. The surviving Greek minutes preserve arguments, official responses and the use of an interpreter. The case offers an unusually direct view of family authority and legal procedure.
Sources
Primary evidence
- P.Oxy. II 237
Modern scholarship
- The Journal of Juristic Papyrology scholarship on P.Oxy. II 237
- Modern studies of marriage and paternal power in Roman Egypt
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