Search Results for: bandits

Northern peoples: Inscriptions on barbarians as bandits (second-third centuries CE)

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

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

Bandits and their wild banquets: Lapiths and Centaurs

Sources mentioned in “Criminalizing Conquered Peoples” (Bertinoro 2024)

Libyans: Eratosthenes, Artemidoros, and Strabo on peoples and customs (early first century CE)

Egyptians: Strabo on animal gods and accompanying rites (early first century CE)

Judeans: Strabo on decline after Moses and banditry (early first century CE)

Assyrians, Babylonians, and surrounding peoples: Strabo on their customs (early first century CE)

Indians, Ethiopians, and Iberians: Poseidonios and Strabo on Eudoxos of Kyzikos’ expeditions (first centuries BCE and CE)

Persians and peoples in their territory: Strabo on their customs and on bandit peoples (early first century CE)

Ichthyophagians: Nearchos and Agatharchides on Fish-eaters around the Arabian Sea (fourth-first centuries BCE)

Indians: Iamboulos and Diodoros on a utopian island beyond India (mid-first century BCE)

Lelegians and Carians: Philip of Theangela on civilized Carians and savage Lelegians (third century BCE)

Lydian diasporas: Herodotos, Timaios of Tauromenion, and others on legends of migration to Tyrrhenia (late fourth century BCE on)

Medes: Nearchos and Strabo on neighbouring bandit-peoples and on Median customs (early first century CE)

Lycians, Pamphylians, and Cilicians: Strabo contrasts civilized and uncivilized peoples in southern Anatolia (early first century CE)

Romans: Dionysios on Roman origins, Italic peoples, and legends of Greek and Pelasgian migrations to Italy (late first century BCE)

Italic peoples: Strabo on Latins, Sabines, Samnites, Umbrians, Lucanians, and others (early first century CE)

Tyrrhenians: Strabo on Etruscans as a powerful “bandit” people (early first century CE)

Cilicians: Roman authorities, Cicero, and Florus on a population of “pirates” (100-67 BCE)

Syrian diasporas: Diodoros and Florus on Eunous of Apameia’s leadership of the slave rebellion on Sicily (mid-first century BCE / second century CE)

Iberians: Diodoros on Viriathus and the Lusitanians’ resistance to Roman rule (mid-first century BCE)

Sikelians, Sikanians, Sardinians and Iolaeians: Diodoros on ancient migrations and local customs on Sicily (mid-first century BCE)

Isaurians: Diodoros on their bravery and noble death (mid-first century BCE)

Judean wisdom: Tatian the Assyrian on the priority of Moses’ “barbarian wisdom” (second century CE)

Cretans: Diodoros on Cretan (Greek) contributions to civilization (mid-first century BCE)

Sikelians, Sikanians, Phoenicians and Greeks: Thucydides on settlement of Sicily (late fifth century BCE)

Romans: Ammianus Marcellinus on the danger of decline into uncivilized lifestyles (late fourth century CE)

Cilicians: Plutarch on foreign “pirates” threatening Roman ways (early-second century CE)

Panchaians: Euhemeros and Diodoros on a noble people worshipping Zeus on a utopian island (fourth / first century BCE)

Baliaridians and other barbarian peoples off Iberia: Diodoros on their paradoxical customs (mid-first century BCE)

Mardians among Persians: Curtius Rufus on Alexander’s conquest of an uncivilized cave people (first century CE)

Libyans and Ausourianians: Synesios on years of incursions into Cyrenaica (early fifth century CE)

Libyans, Maurians and Ausourianians: Ammianus Marcellinus on their savage behaviour and banditry (late fourth century CE)

Ethiopians, Nubians, and Egyptians: Christian authors picturing darker-skinned peoples as “demons” (second century CE on)

Ethiopians: Palladios and others on Abba Moses the former bandit with darker skin (fourth-fifth centuries CE)

Libyans: Dionysios of Mytilene and Diodoros on Nasamonians, Marmaridians, and Libyan Amazons (third / mid-first century BCE)

Egyptians: Attic vase paintings, Isocrates and others on king Bousiris and human sacrifice (fifth century BCE on)

Scythians: Lucian on a competition between Toxaris and Mnesippos about ethnic superiority (mid-second century CE)

Isaurians: Ammianus Marcellinus on their incursions and banditry (late fourth century CE)

Arabians: Ammianus Marcellinus on the customs of Saracens (late fourth century CE)

Ethiopians and Arabians: Nonnosos on Saracens and on a hairy people (sixth century CE)

Mysians, Galatians, Pisidians, and others: Strabo on relations among Anatolian peoples (early first century CE)

Iberians: Appian of Alexandria on Viriathus and resistance by Lusitanians (second century CE)

Libyans / Africans: Tacitus on Tacfarinas and resistance by Numidians, Maurians, and Musulamians (early second century CE)

Libyans / Africans: Pliny the Elder on various peoples and strange customs (first century CE)

Finnish Institute at Athens presentation – ‘You are the bandit!’: Criminalizing Conquered Peoples, and Some Retorts

Cretans: Athenians and Rhodians on suppressing supposed bandit peoples (fifth-third centuries BCE)

Aitolians: Thucydides on barbarous Greeks (late fifth century BCE)

Scythian wisdom: Curtius Rufus on the Scythian elder’s speech about Alexander the bandit (first century CE)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Celts and Ligurians: Strabo on peoples south of the Alps (early first century CE)

Indian wisdom: Philostratos on Apollonios of Tyana’s journeys to barbarian lands (early third century CE)

Celts: Strabo on peoples northwest of the Alps (early first century CE)

Egyptians: Diodoros on the origins of civilization and on Egyptian views (mid-first century BCE)

Aitolians: Ephoros on their origins and invincibility (mid-fourth century BCE)

Sarmatians: Tacitus on ferocity and laziness in military situations (early second century CE)

Scythian wisdom: Letters of Anacharsis on wise barbarians (mid-third century BCE)

Iberians: Artemidoros, Poseidonios, Strabo, and others (second century BCE to first century CE)

Germans: Tacitus’ Germania in full (late first century CE)

Chaldeans, Greeks, Egyptians, and Judeans: Aristides of Athens (second century CE)

Indians: Nearchos, Megasthenes, and Arrian (fourth century BCE-second century CE)

Discussion Notes for Honouring the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean (Remote version 2021-22)

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Course Outline for Founders of Christianity (HUMA 2830; version A; 2015-2016)

Discussion Notes for The Ancient Greek and Roman Novel (HUMA 4107)

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Discussion Notes for Founders of Christianity (version B)

Course Outline for Founders of Christianity (HUMA 2830; version B)

Discussion Notes for Greek and Roman Religion: Honouring the Gods (version B)

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