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2023

Ethiopians, Nubians, and Egyptians: Christian authors picturing darker-skinned peoples as “demons” (second century CE on)original ↗
4 Apr 2023
Ethiopians: Palladios and others on Abba Moses the former bandit with darker skin (fourth-fifth centuries CE)original ↗
4 Apr 2023
New scholarly article: Maia Kotrosits, “The Ethnography of Gender” (2023)original ↗
30 Mar 2023
Egyptians, Ethiopians, Indians and others: Depictions of “pygmies” in Greek and Roman art (fifth century BCE-first century CE)original ↗
26 Mar 2023
Armenians / Parthians: Statue of the client king Tiridates I in the Louvre (66 CE)original ↗
26 Mar 2023
Thracians, Galatians, Daans, and others: Polybios on the mixed composition of the armies of Ptolemy IV and Antiochos III (second century BCE)original ↗
25 Mar 2023
Thracians: Attic vase paintings depicting Thracian women with tattoos, warriors, and Orpheus (sixth-fifth centuries BCE)original ↗
24 Mar 2023
Romans, Egyptians, Persians, and others: Minucius Felix’s ethnographic defence of the Christian people (early third century CE)original ↗
22 Mar 2023
Persians: Acts of Archelaos on Mani’s foreignness (early fourth century CE)original ↗
21 Mar 2023
Thracians and Odrysians: Thucydides on Thracians, power, and violence (late fifth century BCE)original ↗
18 Mar 2023
Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Phoenicians: Julius Africanus on competitive chronologies (ca. 222 CE)original ↗
17 Mar 2023
Dacians: Frieze of Trajan’s conquest reused on the so-called Arch of Constantine (likely 107 CE or after)original ↗
17 Mar 2023
Celtic diasporas: Galatian mercenaries settled at Alexandria in Egypt (ca. 250-200 BCE)original ↗
17 Mar 2023
Parthians: Kneeling colossal support statues in eastern garb (first century CE)original ↗
16 Mar 2023
Sarmatians, Marcomannians, Quadians, and Iazygians: Reliefs on Marcus Aurelius’ column including women and children (176-193 CE)original ↗
15 Mar 2023
Libyans: Dionysios of Mytilene and Diodoros on competing claims about the god Dionysos (third / mid-first century BCE)original ↗
9 Mar 2023
Atlantians: Dionysios of Mytilene and Diodoros on supposed Atlantian stories about the earliest kings / gods (third / mid-first century BCE)original ↗
9 Mar 2023
Libyans: Dionysios of Mytilene and Diodoros on Nasamonians, Marmaridians, and Libyan Amazons (third / mid-first century BCE)original ↗
9 Mar 2023
Mediterranean peoples: Ovid on identifying personified peoples in art to impress a girl (early first century CE)original ↗
9 Mar 2023
Persians: Irenaeus on Marcus the Valentinian Magian (late second century CE)original ↗
7 Mar 2023
Persians: Vitruvius theorizes about Greek depictions of enemies in architectural contexts (first century BCE)original ↗
6 Mar 2023
Mediterranean peoples: Roman coins [part 3] on kneeling in supplication or adoration (first century BCE on)original ↗
6 Mar 2023
Mediterranean peoples: Roman coins [part 2] on humiliated captives kneeling or on the ground (first century BCE on)original ↗
6 Mar 2023
Mediterranean peoples: Diodoros, Pliny and Plutarch on Pompey’s subjugation of peoples of the world (mid-first century BCE on)original ↗
3 Mar 2023
Mediterranean peoples: Augustus on his own achievements, conquests and alliances with peoples (14 CE)original ↗
3 Mar 2023
Judeans: Reliefs on the Arch for Titus depicting temple treasures and defeat (late first century CE)original ↗
1 Mar 2023
Egyptian perspectives: Oracles of the Lamb and the Potter on Greco-Macedonians and other foreigners (third-second centuries BCE)original ↗
28 Feb 2023
Judeans: Hekataios, pseudo-Hekataios and Diodoros on Judean origins and migration with the exodus (first century BCE)original ↗
26 Feb 2023
Egyptians: Hekataios of Miletos on encountering Theban priests (late sixth century BCE)original ↗
24 Feb 2023
Egyptians: Attic vase paintings, Isocrates and others on king Bousiris and human sacrifice (fifth century BCE on)original ↗
24 Feb 2023
Egyptians: Cicero on superstition and animal-worship (mid-first century BCE)original ↗
22 Feb 2023
Scythians: Lucian on a competition between Toxaris and Mnesippos about ethnic superiority (mid-second century CE)original ↗
21 Feb 2023
Assyrians, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Celts, and others: The Cicero brothers on the nature and effectiveness of divination (mid-first century BCE)original ↗
21 Feb 2023
Libyans: Aelian on Libyan views and customs about animals (late second century CE)original ↗
20 Feb 2023
Indians: Aelian on Indian views and customs about animals (late second century CE)original ↗
19 Feb 2023
Egyptians, Taurians, and Celts: Cicero’s Philus engages in ethnographic discourses for philosophical aims (mid-first century BCE)original ↗
17 Feb 2023
Egyptians: Aelian on Egyptian views and customs about animals and animal-worship (late second century CE)original ↗
17 Feb 2023
Arabians: Agatharchides and Diodoros on peoples of Arabia Felix on the eastern coast of the Red Sea (second-first centuries BCE)original ↗
16 Feb 2023
Assyrian / Babylonian wisdom: Sibyl of Babylon on the superiority of the Judean people (second century BCE)original ↗
14 Feb 2023
Indians: Palladios and George on naked philosophers or Brahmans (fourth / ninth centuries CE)original ↗
11 Feb 2023
Barbarian peoples: Caesarius of Nazianzos’ and George the Monk’s collection of extraordinary customs (sixth / ninth centuries CE)original ↗
9 Feb 2023
Egyptian wisdom: Plato’s Socrates on the discoveries of the Egyptian god Thoth (fourth century BCE)original ↗
9 Feb 2023
Phrygians: Alexander Polyhistor, Hermogenes, and others on Phrygian Matters (first century BCE on)original ↗
7 Feb 2023
Mediterranean peoples: Pliny the Elder on inventors around the world (first century CE)original ↗
7 Feb 2023
Babylonian perspectives: Bel-re’ushu / Berossos on the origins of civilization (late fourth century BCE)original ↗
6 Feb 2023
Egyptian wisdom: Cicero, Diodoros and Valerius Maximus on Pythagoras’ and Plato’s supposed journeys to Egypt (first centuries BCE and CE)original ↗
5 Feb 2023
Indians: Greek representations of conquest on coins with Alexander of Macedon and Demetrios of Baktria wearing elephant skins (fourth-second century BCE)original ↗
2 Feb 2023
Indian and Persian wisdom: Deinon of Kolophon, Cicero, and Plutarch on Alexander, the naked philosophers, and Kalanos (early second century CE)original ↗
2 Feb 2023
Persians: Heresy-hunters on Simon Magus and other Magians (second-third centuries CE)original ↗
1 Feb 2023
Persian wisdom: Lactantius and others on the Oracles of Hystaspes the Mede (third century CE)original ↗
30 Jan 2023
Persian wisdom: Ammianus Marcellinus on Zoroaster, Hystaspes, and the Magians (late fourth century CE)original ↗
30 Jan 2023
Egyptian wisdom: Vettius Valens and others on Petosiris and pharaoh Nechepsos as astrologers (first-fifth centuries CE)original ↗
29 Jan 2023
Mediterranean peoples: Pomponius Mela on peoples of the known world (mid-first century CE)original ↗
24 Jan 2023
Persians: Suda on Zoroaster and on expertise in Magian practice, howling chants, and potions (tenth century CE)original ↗
23 Jan 2023
Scythians: Lucian on Toxaris’ and Anacharsis’ differing encounters with Greeks (late second century CE)original ↗
20 Jan 2023
Lydians, Maionians, Arimians, and Solymians: Strabo on a variety of peoples in Lydia, Phrygia and Pisidia (early first century CE)original ↗
20 Jan 2023
Assyrian wisdom: The Kyranides on a journey to learn from a foreign inscription (fourth century CE or earlier)original ↗
19 Jan 2023
Persians: Apuleius of Madaura’s defence against the charge of harmful Magian actions (ca. 158 CE)original ↗
19 Jan 2023
Isaurians: Ammianus Marcellinus on their incursions and banditry (late fourth century CE)original ↗
17 Jan 2023
Arabians: Ammianus Marcellinus on the customs of Saracens (late fourth century CE)original ↗
17 Jan 2023
Barbarian and Judean wisdom: Clement of Alexandria [V] on the sources of Plato’s thought (late second century CE)original ↗
17 Jan 2023
Persians: Clement of Alexandria [IV] on the elements among Greek philosophers and Persian Magians (late second century CE)original ↗
17 Jan 2023
Taurians and Greeks: Clement of Alexandria [III] on human sacrifice (late second century CE)original ↗
17 Jan 2023
Egyptians: Clement of Alexandria [II] on Egyptian animal worship as less offensive than Greek customs (late second century CE)original ↗
17 Jan 2023
Scythians: Clement of Alexandria [I] on the example of Anacharsis (late second century CE)original ↗
17 Jan 2023
Ethiopians and Arabians: Nonnosos on Saracens and on a hairy people (sixth century CE)original ↗
16 Jan 2023
Dyrbaians: Ktesias on an extremely just people between Baktria and India (early fourth century BCE)original ↗
16 Jan 2023
Amazons, Tibarenians, and Mossynoikians: Apollonios of Rhodes on a voyage to the Kolchians (third century BCE)original ↗
16 Jan 2023
Persians: Xanthos on the Magians’ supposed incest and on Zoroaster’s date (mid-fifth century BCE)original ↗
16 Jan 2023
Troglodytes: Graffiti and inscriptions from the Red Sea area thanking Pan / Min for rescue from Cave-dwellers (second century BCE)original ↗
16 Jan 2023
Persians: Matthew and Luke-Acts on two contrasting approaches to Magians (late first century CE)original ↗
14 Jan 2023
Persians: Pliny on the dissemination of Magian skill to the peoples of the world (first century CE)original ↗
13 Jan 2023
Judean wisdom: Pseudo-Clement on a journey to Peter the Judean sage (third century CE and on)original ↗
12 Jan 2023
Parthians: Panamara inscription on Zeus’ miraculous actions against invading Parthians (ca. 39 BCE)original ↗
10 Jan 2023
Celts: Thyatira inscription for a son rescued from the Galatians by the god Apollo (276 BCE)original ↗
9 Jan 2023
Celts: Priene inscription on Galatian “impiety” and “savagery” during the invasion (ca. 278-270 BCE)original ↗
8 Jan 2023
Romans: Dionysios on the supposed Roman refusal of barbarian and Phrygian customs (late first century BCE)original ↗
4 Jan 2023
Mysians, Galatians, Pisidians, and others: Strabo on relations among Anatolian peoples (early first century CE)original ↗
3 Jan 2023
Celts and Germans: Diodoros, Dionysios, Strabo, and Dio on distinguishing them (first century BCE-third century CE)original ↗
2 Jan 2023
Bithynians, Mariandynians, Paphlagonians, and others: Strabo on temple-states and peoples near his Pontic homeland (early first century CE)original ↗
1 Jan 2023
Cappadocians: Strabo on their temple-states and supposed desire for subservience (early first century CE)original ↗
1 Jan 2023
Indians, Ethiopians, and Celts: Dio of Prusa critiques foreign imports and luxury (late first century CE)original ↗
1 Jan 2023
Indians: Dio of Prusa on the Indians’ superior mode of life (late first century CE)original ↗
1 Jan 2023

2022

Persian, Egyptian, Indian, and Celtic wisdom: Dio of Prusa on philosophers’ roles in leadership (late first century CE)original ↗
31 Dec 2022
Getians, Scythians, and Goths: Jordanes on their supposed origins and achievements (mid-sixth century CE)original ↗
30 Dec 2022
Persians: Dio of Prusa on Magians and a supposedly Zoroastrian myth (late first century CE)original ↗
29 Dec 2022
Scythians and Getians: Dio of Prusa on inter-ethnic encounters at Olbia and on Getian Matters (late first century CE)original ↗
29 Dec 2022
Ethnic diversity in Alexandria: Dio of Prusa on the cross-roads of the world (late first century CE)original ↗
28 Dec 2022
Parthians and Scythians: Julius Africanus on barbarian military techniques (early third century CE)original ↗
27 Dec 2022
Parthians: Arrian on their Scythian origins (second century CE)original ↗
23 Dec 2022
Iberians: Appian of Alexandria on Viriathus and resistance by Lusitanians (second century CE)original ↗
22 Dec 2022
Scythians: Adventures of Andrew and Matthias among the Man-eaters as ethnographic fiction (third-fifth centuries CE)original ↗
22 Dec 2022
Libyans / Africans: Tacitus on Tacfarinas and resistance by Numidians, Maurians, and Musulamians (early second century CE)original ↗
21 Dec 2022
Libyans / Africans: Pliny the Elder on various peoples and strange customs (first century CE)original ↗
19 Dec 2022
Finnish Institute at Athens presentation – ‘You are the bandit!’: Criminalizing Conquered Peoples, and Some Retortsoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2022
Cretans: Athenians and Rhodians on suppressing supposed bandit peoples (fifth-third centuries BCE)original ↗
6 Dec 2022
Northern peoples: Inscriptions on barbarians as bandits (second-third centuries CE)original ↗
2 Dec 2022
Aitolians: Thucydides on barbarous Greeks (late fifth century BCE)original ↗
30 Nov 2022
Barbarians and Greeks: Thucydides theorizes the shift from barbarian banditry to settled civilization (late fifth century BCE)original ↗
30 Nov 2022
Scythian wisdom: Curtius Rufus on the Scythian elder’s speech about Alexander the bandit (first century CE)original ↗
29 Nov 2022
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