Your Day in the Ancient Greek World

September 24

September 24 in ancient Greece is represented in our source-audited archive by one verified record dated 235 BC. The entry below connects this calendar date with its surviving historical evidence and context.

Across the centuries

On This Day

  1. 235 BC

    Life on This Day

    Philadelpheia and Krokodilopolis, Ptolemaic Egypt Law & Civic Life High

    Zenon Asks a District Official to Stop Troubling His People

    On September 24, 235 BC, Zenon wrote to the district official Achoapis while traveling to Krokodilopolis to make previously agreed payments. He asked the official not to trouble his people any further. The letter offers a direct glimpse of negotiation and administrative pressure within the Ptolemaic bureaucracy.

    Sources

    Primary evidence

    • British Library Papyrus 2667, Zenon archive

    Modern scholarship

    • British Library catalogue record

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