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Egyptian diasporas: Herodotos on legends about Kolchians and customs of circumcision (mid-fifth century BCE)original ↗

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Pelasgian diasporas: Hekataios of Miletos and Herodotos on legends of migration, language, and influence (sixth century BCE)original ↗

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Indians: Ktesias on Indian Matters via Photios, Pliny the Elder, and Aelian (early fourth century BCE)original ↗

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Indians, Ethiopians and others: Pliny the Elder on “unbelievable” peoples (first century CE)original ↗

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Assyrians, Medes and Persians: Ktesias on Persian Matters via Diodoros and Photios (early fourth century BCE)original ↗

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Ethiopians: Agatharchides and Diodoros on lifestyles and diets in the extreme south (second-first centuries BCE)original ↗

15 Nov 2022

Thracians, Getians, Paionians, and others: Herodotos (mid-fifth century BCE)original ↗

15 Nov 2022

Judean diasporas: Differing perspectives on violent clashes between Judeans and Greeks in Libya and Egypt under Trajan, ca. 115-117 CE (second-fourth centuries CE)original ↗

15 Nov 2022

Judean diasporas: Josephos on conflicts in Babylonia, ca. 40-66 CE (late first century CE)original ↗

12 Nov 2022

Baktrians, Sogdians, and some “completely barbarous” eastern peoples: Strabo (early first century CE)original ↗

10 Nov 2022

Parthians: Strabo on Scythian origins and military success (early first century CE)original ↗

9 Nov 2022

Parthians: Trogus on the origins and developments of an empire (first century BCE)original ↗

9 Nov 2022

Daans, Kadousians, Hyrkanians, and Sakians: Strabo on peoples east of the Caspian Sea (first century CE)original ↗

8 Nov 2022

Arabians: Strabo and Josephos on Itureans as a supposed bandit-people (first century CE)original ↗

7 Nov 2022

Germans and Sarmatians: Josephos on impulsive and violent northerners (late first century CE)original ↗

7 Nov 2022

Idumeans: Josephos on the Edomites’ origins and relations with Judeans (late first century CE)original ↗

4 Nov 2022

Idumean diasporas: Inscriptions and papyri (second century BCE-third century CE)original ↗

3 Nov 2022

Judean diasporas: Josephos on tensions with Greeks in Syria, the Decapolis, and Alexandria ca. 59-66 CE (late first century CE)original ↗

31 Oct 2022

Indian wisdom: Josephos integrates Indians into Eleazar’s Masada speech (late first century CE)original ↗

30 Oct 2022

Kimmerians and Kolchians: Herodotos on other Pontic peoples (mid-fifth century BCE)original ↗

29 Oct 2022

Samaritans: Josephos on Cuthean origins and relations with Judeans over centuries (late first century CE)original ↗

29 Oct 2022

Indian wisdom: Naked philosophers and wise diviners in the Alexander Romance (fourth century CE and earlier)original ↗

27 Oct 2022

Egyptian wisdom: Alexander Romance on king Nektanebos the astrologer and diviner (fourth century CE and earlier)original ↗

26 Oct 2022

Babylonian and Persian wisdom: Kleitarchos on Chaldeans and Magians (late fourth-third centuries BCE)original ↗

26 Oct 2022

Barbarians and Greeks: Eratosthenes challenges the dichotomy (third century BCE)original ↗

26 Oct 2022

Egyptians: Achilles Tatius and Dio Cassius on man-eating cowherds / bandits (second-third century CE)original ↗

25 Oct 2022

Barbarians and Greeks: Dionysios theorizes the blurry lines (late first century BCE)original ↗

24 Oct 2022

Iberians, Albanians and others of the Caucasus area: Strabo (early first century CE)original ↗

23 Oct 2022

Babylonians and Assyrians: Herodotos on legendary queens and outstanding customs (mid-fifth century BCE)original ↗

23 Oct 2022

Judean diasporas: Philo on conflicts with Greeks at Alexandria and on rebellious Egyptians (mid-first century CE)original ↗

23 Oct 2022

Arabians: Pseudo-Nilus on barbarian bandits and Saracens in the Sinai desert (early fifth century CE)original ↗

22 Oct 2022

Maiotians, Bosporians, Kaukasians, and other Pontic peoples: Strabo on northern Asia (early first century CE)original ↗

17 Oct 2022

Sicilians and other Greeks: Cicero’s praise for Sicilians in the prosecution of Verres (mid-first century BCE)original ↗

17 Oct 2022

Phoenicians and Sardinians: Cicero’s ethnic invective in defending Marcus Scaurus (mid-first century BCE)original ↗

17 Oct 2022

Celts: Cicero’s ethnic invective against Gauls in defending Fonteius (mid-first century BCE)original ↗

16 Oct 2022

Scythians: Aischines’ ethnic invective against Demosthenes (mid-fourth century BCE)original ↗

16 Oct 2022

Judean diasporas: Josephos’ citation of documents on Asia Minor and Libya under Julius Caesar and Augustus (late first century CE)original ↗

15 Oct 2022

Egyptian and Ethiopian diasporas: Diodoros on competing legends of migration and colonization (mid-first century BCE)original ↗

14 Oct 2022

Judeans, “Asiatics”, and Greeks: Cicero’s ethnic invective aimed at eastern witnesses against Flaccus (mid-first century BCE)original ↗

14 Oct 2022

Judeans: Trogus on contributions of Joseph and Moses and on the exodus (first century BCE)original ↗

14 Oct 2022

Indians: Herodotos on eastern peoples at the ends of the earth (mid-fifth century BCE)original ↗

14 Oct 2022

Greeks, Barbarians, Judeans, and Christians: Eusebios’ framing of a way of life (early fourth century CE)original ↗

13 Oct 2022

Egyptians: Dio Cassius’ speech by Octavian on the “effeminate” Antony (early third century CE)original ↗

13 Oct 2022

Celts: Dio Cassius on spirited and untrustworthy Galatians (early third century CE)original ↗

13 Oct 2022

Judeans and others: The Gospel of Philip (before the fourth century CE)original ↗

12 Oct 2022

Persian, Indian, and Judean wisdom: Klearchos of Soloi on Magian precedence (fourth century BCE)original ↗

12 Oct 2022

Judeans: Kleomedes denigrates Epicurus and Judeans (second century CE)original ↗

12 Oct 2022

Judeans: Ignatius on Judaizing and Christianizing (early second century CE)original ↗

11 Oct 2022

Judeans and Celts: Various authors on Claudius’ actions against foreigners in the 40s CE (second / third centuries CE original ↗

11 Oct 2022

Ethiopians: Herodotos on southern peoples at the ends of the earth (mid-fifth century BCE)original ↗

11 Oct 2022

Mediterranean peoples: Artemidoros theorizes foreign elements in dreams (second century CE)original ↗

10 Oct 2022

Barbarian wisdom: The Thunder, Perfect Mind (before the fourth century CE)original ↗

10 Oct 2022

Syrian perspectives: Lucian self-identifies as “barbarian” and “Assyrian” (mid-second century CE)original ↗

10 Oct 2022

Libyan perspectives: Cornelius Fronto self-identifies as a “barbarian” and Libyan nomad (mid-second century CE)original ↗

8 Oct 2022

Libyan perspectives: Apuleius self-identifies as a barbarian and Numidian / Gaetulian (mid-second century CE)original ↗

8 Oct 2022

Persians, Spartans, and Athenians: Platonic author on the superiority of the Persians (fourth century BCE)original ↗

8 Oct 2022

Indian wisdom: Apuleius on the amazing naked philosophers and Pythagoras’ journeys (mid-second century CE)original ↗

8 Oct 2022

Judeans, Syrians, Celts, Scythians and others: Plutarch on the “barbarian” origins of fearing the gods, or “superstition” (early second century CE)original ↗

7 Oct 2022

Judeans, Syrians, and Egyptians: Epiktetos engages with ethnographic discourses for philosophical aims (mid-first century CE)original ↗

6 Oct 2022

Judeans, Egyptians, and Magians: Various authors on Tiberius’ actions against foreign practices 17-19 CE (first-third centuries CE)original ↗

4 Oct 2022

Judeans, Egyptians, and others: Seneca on the “superstitions” of foreigners (mid-first century CE)original ↗

4 Oct 2022

Judeans, Africans, and Germans: Columella on the limits of environmental theory (first century CE)original ↗

4 Oct 2022

Judeans: Valerius Maximus on the 139 BCE expulsion with “Chaldeans” (early first century CE)original ↗

4 Oct 2022

Idumeans and Judeans: Ptolemy the historian on the difference (late first century BCE)original ↗

4 Oct 2022

Judeans and Thracians: Hermippos of Smyrna on their influence on Pythagoras (early second century BCE)original ↗

3 Oct 2022

Judean wisdom: Josephos on philosophical sects among Judeans (late-first century CE)original ↗

1 Oct 2022

Greeks and Judeans: “Hellenizing” and “Judaizing” in 2 Maccabees (first century BCE)original ↗

1 Oct 2022

Persians and Medes: Thucydides on Medizing (late-fifth century BCE)original ↗

30 Sept 2022

Samaritans and Judeans: Belonging to Israel in the Gospels (first century CE)original ↗

29 Sept 2022

Lydians: Herodotos on king Croesus and Lydian customs (mid-fifth century BCE)original ↗

29 Sept 2022

Gauls and Germans: Scenes from the Triumphal Arch of Orange (late first century BCE)original ↗

29 Sept 2022

Greeks and other peoples: Paul’s Judean stereotypes about non-Judeans (mid-first century CE)original ↗

28 Sept 2022

Christians, Judeans, and Greeks: Christians as a descent group in the Epistle to Diognetos (second or third century CE)original ↗

28 Sept 2022

Egyptians and Canaanites: Wisdom of Solomon on worship of animals and images (first century BCE)original ↗

27 Sept 2022

Barbarian wisdom: Porphyry of Tyre’s Neoplatonic perspective (third century CE)original ↗

27 Sept 2022

Phoenicians: Gospel of Mark on Jesus and a Syro-Phoenician woman (late first century CE)original ↗

26 Sept 2022

Cretans: Stereotypes in the letter to Titus (early second century CE)original ↗

26 Sept 2022

Parthians, Libyans, Egyptians and others: Acts of the Apostles on legends of Judean migration (early second century CE)original ↗

26 Sept 2022

Scythians and barbarians: Colossians and others on ritual recitations (late first or early second century CE)original ↗

26 Sept 2022

Britons, Armenians, Bessians, and others: Reliefs of subjugated peoples at Aphrodisias (first century CE)original ↗

26 Sept 2022

Indian wisdom: Nearchos, Megasthenes, and Arrian on the sages Dandamis and Kalanos (fourth century BCE-second century CE)original ↗

25 Sept 2022

Judean, Indian, Babylonian, and Egyptian wisdom: Numenius the Platonic philosopher (mid-second century CE)original ↗

22 Sept 2022

Illyrians, Pannonians, and other peoples: Strabo (early first century CE)original ↗

22 Sept 2022

Getians, Dacians, and Scythians: Strabo (early first century CE)original ↗

22 Sept 2022

Persians and Medes: Herodotos on customs (mid-fifth century BCE)original ↗

22 Sept 2022

Barbarian wisdom: Cornutus on early humanity’s Stoic understanding of the cosmos (mid-first century CE)original ↗

18 Sept 2022

Mediterranean peoples: Sextus Empiricus engages with ethnographic discourses for philosophical aims (second-third centuries CE)original ↗

17 Sept 2022

Western peoples beyond the pillars of Herakles (and up): Lucian’s “A True Story” and ethnographic fiction (late second century CE)original ↗

16 Sept 2022

Northern peoples: Antonios Diogenes’ “Wonders Beyond Thule” and ethnographic fiction (second century CE / ninth century CE)original ↗

13 Sept 2022

Arabians: Diodoros on Nabatean customs and freedom (mid-first century BCE)original ↗

10 Sept 2022

Judean and Israelite diasporas: Inscriptional evidence (second century BCE-third century CE)original ↗

9 Sept 2022

Babylonian wisdom: Diodoros on Chaldeans’ astrology and divination (mid-first century BCE)original ↗

9 Sept 2022

Parthians: Scenes from the Arch of Septimius Severus (early third century CE)original ↗

9 Sept 2022

Scythians, Amazons, and Persians: Isocrates on the superiority of the Athenian people (early fourth century BCE)original ↗

9 Sept 2022

Mossynoikians in Pontos: Xenophon and others on the “most barbarous” people (early fourth century BCE)original ↗

8 Sept 2022

Persians: Xenophon and an anonymous author on royal customs and Cyrus (early fourth century BCE / second century BCE)original ↗

8 Sept 2022

Celts and Germans: Plutarch’s ethnographic digressions in the Lives (early second century CE)original ↗

6 Sept 2022

Scythians, Amazons, and Hyperboreans: Diodoros on some northerners (mid-first century BCE)original ↗

1 Sept 2022

Indians: Diodoros on environment, customs and social organization (mid-first century BCE)original ↗

1 Sept 2022