Author Archives: Daniel Mitchell

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

Celts: Pliny the Elder on medicine, rites and Magian skill among Druids (first century CE)

Scythians: Lucian on Anacharsis and Solon’s dialogue about the superiority of Greek customs (mid-second century CE)

Armenians / Parthians: Statue of the client king Tiridates I in the Louvre (66 CE)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scythians and other Pontic peoples: Herodotos on the “most ignorant peoples of all” (fifth century BCE)

Arabians: Herodotos on deities and lifestyle (late fifth century BCE)

Parthians, Celts and Iberians or Germans: Scenes on the breastplate of the “Augustus of Prima Porta” (early first century CE)

Libyans: Herodotos on customs and colonization (fifth century BCE)

Egyptians: Herodotos on customs and legendary kings (fifth century BCE)

Phoenicians: Herodotos on customs and colonizing efforts (fifth century BCE)