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.

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

Category Archives: Mardians (in Persian territory)

Asian Albanians, Iberians, Mardians and others: Demodamas and Pliny the Elder on peoples in the Caucasus region and further east (third century BCE / first century CE)

Posted in (02) Greek and Roman perspectives and stereotypes on other peoples, (a) Northern peoples, (d) Eastern peoples, Albanians of the Caucasus area, ancient ethnography / ethnographic culture, Arimaspians, Baktrians / Bactrians, Demodamas (Greek), ethnicity in the ancient world, Gelians (on the Caspian Sea), Heniochians (in the Caucasus region), Iberians of the Caucasus area, Kadousians / Cadusians, Mardians (in Persian territory), Persians / Iranians / Magians, Pliny the Elder (Roman), Sakians (subset of Scythians), Scythians / Pontic peoples (broad category), Sogdians on June 21, 2023 by Philip A. Harland.

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

Posted in (02) Greek and Roman perspectives and stereotypes on other peoples, (d) Eastern peoples, ancient ethnography / ethnographic culture, Curtius Rufus (Roman), ethnicity in the ancient world, Mardians (in Persian territory), Persians / Iranians / Magians on April 28, 2023 by Philip A. Harland.

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Construction of this site was supported by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada.

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