Citation with stable link: Philip A. Harland, 'Guide to Plutarch of Chaironeia,' Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World, last modified May 23, 2024, https://philipharland.com/Blog/?p=19993.
This is a guide to ethnographic passages from the works of Plutarch of Chaironeia (early second century CE) and works attributed to him (Pseudo-Plutarch*) on this website:
Characterizations of peoples (alphabetical by principal people)
- Barbarian slaves as a bad influence on Greek children (link)
- Celts and Germans in the biographies (link)
- Cilicians as “pirates” threatening Roman ways (link)
- Judeans, Syrians, Celts, Scythians and others and the origins of fearing the lower spirits, or “superstition” (link)
- Lelegians, Minyans, and their relations with Greek Trallians (link)
- *Lycians, Lydians, and Egyptians and the effeminacy of grief (link)
- Mediterranean peoples and Pompey’s subjugation of the world (link)
- Persians, Tyrrhenians and Lycians and their women (link)
- Romans and the practice of human sacrifice (link)
Wise “barbarians” (alphabetical by people)
- Egyptian wisdom via priests of Isis and Osiris (link)
- Egyptian and Persian wisdom and refuting the “barbarian-lover” Herodotos (link)
- Indian wisdom via naked philosophers and Kalanos (link)
- Persian wisdom via Magians and Zoroaster (link)
- Persian wisdom and Kleombrotos’ journeys (link)
- Scythian wisdom via Anacharsis (link)