Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland

Portal to my podcast, websites, blog, and publications, providing an entryway into social and cultural life anong Greeks, Romans, Judeans, Christians, and others in ancient Mediterranean. Ethnicity, Diaspora, and relations among ethnic and minority groups is a focus.

Category Archives: Paphlagonians (in northern Asia Minor)

Babylonian diasporas: Josephos and others on legends of migration from Babel (first-second centuries CE)

Bithynians, Mariandynians, Paphlagonians, and others: Strabo on temple-states and peoples near his Pontic homeland (early first century CE)

Ethnic diversity in Egypt: Inscriptional and papyrological evidence

Mediterranean peoples: Diodoros and Pliny on Pompey’s subjugation of peoples of the world (mid-first century BCE on)

Various peoples: Herodotos on the mixed composition of the Persian army under Xerxes (fifth century BCE)