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  • What: the start of Alexander’s expedition to Asia
  • Where: Asia
  • When: Spring 334
  • What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): Historical narrative by Plutarch biographical
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  • What: the start of Alexander’s expedition to Asia
  • Where: Asia
  • When: Spring 334
  • What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): Historical narrative by Diodorus, biographical
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  • What: maladministration in Alexander’s empire by Arrian
  • Where: Carmania Craterus
  • When: After 334 BC, his expedition into Asia
  • What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): Historical and biographical narrative by Arrian
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  • What: Arrian on Alexander’s ultimate aims
  • Where: Babylon
  • When: 324 BC
  • What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): historical narrative
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  • What: the arrangements at Babylon after the death of Alexander (by Diodorus)
  • Where: Babylon
  • When: June 323 BC
  • What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): narrative history
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  • What: Pyrrhus, king of Epirus
  • Where: Epirus
  • When: late 290s-274 BC
  • What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): historical narrative biography by Plutarch
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  • What: Pyrrhus, king of Epirus
  • Where: Epirus
  • When: late 290s-274 BC
  • What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): historical narrative biography by Plutarch
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  • What: Decree of Chremonides on the Alliance between Athens and Sparta
  • Where: Athens
  • When: between 268 and 265 BC
  • What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): decree
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  • What: Decree of Chremonides on the Alliance between Athens and Sparta
  • Where: Athens
  • When: between 268 and 265 BC
  • What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): decree
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  • What: The rise of the Achaean League by Polybius
  • Where: Greece, likely specifically Sparta
  • When: 280 BC
  • What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): historical narrative by Polybius
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  • What: The rise of the Achaean League by Polybius
  • Where: Greece, likely specifically Sparta
  • When: 280 BC
  • What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): historical narrative by Polybius
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  • What: The rise of the Achaean League by Polybius
  • Where: Greece, likely specifically Sparta
  • When: 280 BC
  • What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): historical narrative by Polybius
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  • What: The sack of Corinth by the Romans by Pausanias
  • Where: Corinth from the perspective of the Romans
  • When: sometime after 146 BC
  • What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): historical narrative
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  • Antiochus I as King of Babylon
  • Where: Babylon, temple of Nabu, patron god of Borsipppa
  • When:
  • What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): cuneiform text inscribed on a cylinder inside a temple
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  • Antiochus I as King of Babylon
  • Where: Babylon, temple of Nabu, patron god of Borsipppa
  • When:
  • What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): cuneiform text inscribed on a cylinder inside a temple
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  • What: King Asoka of India and the Greek World
  • Where: India
  • When: mid-third century
  • What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): 13th major rock edict, and a rock-cut inscription from Kandahar
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  • What: The army of Antiochus III at the battle of Raphia by Polybius
  • Where: Raphia
  • When: Spring 217
  • What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): historical narrative
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  • What: II Maccabees: Seleucis I and the Jews
  • Where: Greece
  • When: 187-160 BC
  • What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): historical accounts
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  • What: II Maccabees: Seleucis I and the Jews
  • Where: Greece
  • When: 187-160 BC
  • What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): historical accounts
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  • The Great Procession at Alexandria
  • Where: Alexandria, Egypt
  • When: 279/278 BC
  • What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): historical account reproduced by Athenaeus from Callixinus
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  • The Great Procession at Alexandria
  • Where: Alexandria, Egypt
  • When: 279/278 BC
  • What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): historical account reproduced by Athenaeus from Callixinus
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  • The Great Procession at Alexandria
  • Where: Alexandria, Egypt
  • When: 279/278 BC
  • What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): historical account reproduced by Athenaeus from Callixinus
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  • What: Ptolemy and the Red Sea
  • Where: Isthmus, Red Sea, city of Berenice
  • When: around the time of Ptolemy II, so early 200s/late 100s.
  • What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): historical/geographical excerpt by Strabo
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  • Where: Letter of complaint to Zenon from a non-Greek
  • When: 256-255 BC
  • What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): a letter
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  • What: Letter of Ptolemy II Philadelphus on the billeting of troops
  • Where: Egypt/Ilium
  • When: mid third century
  • What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): letter
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  • What: The population of Alexandria
  • Where: Alexandria, Egypt
  • When: second half of the second century
  • What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): historical narrative by Polybius
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  • What: Petition to the strategos from the royal peasants of Oxyrhyncha
  • Where: Oxyrhyncha
  • When: c. 138
  • What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): petition

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