Citation with stable link: Philip A. Harland, 'Guide to Cicero,' Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World, last modified June 3, 2024, https://philipharland.com/Blog/?p=20020.

This post provides a guide for reading through ethnographically significant passages in Cicero’s (mid-first century BCE) treatises, letters, and speeches on this website:

• Assyrians, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Celts and divination – On the Republic (link)
• Egyptians, Taurians, Celts and cultural relativity – On the Republic (link)
• Persians and Magians – On the Republic and other works (link)
• Egyptian wisdom via Pythagoras’, Plato’s and Demokritos’ journeys – On the Republic (link)
• Egyptians and animal worship – On the Nature of the Gods (link)
• Indian and Persian wisdom – On Divination (link)
• Libyans, Iberians, and Celts as “savage” peoples requiring control – Letters to His Brother (link)
• Celts / Gauls, Julius Caesar’s command, and conquest – On the Consular Provinces (link)
• Cilicians and imperial control of “pirate” peoples – Pompey’s Command (link)
• Sicilians praised – Against Verres (link)
• Phoenicians and Sardinians blamed – For Marcus Scaurus (link)
• Gauls blamed – For Marcus Fonteius (link)
• Judeans and Asiatics blamed – For Flaccus (link)