Your Day in the Ancient Greek World
October 17
October 17 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated AD 209. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.
Across the centuries
On This Day
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AD 209
Life on This Day
A Father Registers the Birth of His Son Herennas
On October 17, AD 209, Marcus Lucretius Diogenes formally registered the birth of his son Herennas, whose mother Ammonarion was by then divorced from him. The Greek record names three guarantors and civic officials. It preserves the bureaucratic moment when a child’s status was entered into the public record.
Sources
Primary evidence
- P.Turner 30 = P.Diog. 3 = TM 15714; British Library Papyrus 2507
Modern scholarship
- British Library Archives and Manuscripts catalogue
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