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.

Category Archives: Saracens / Sarakenians (in Arabia)

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

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

Eastern and northern peoples: Bardaisan of Edessa’s Book of the Laws of Countries, Pseudo-Clementines, and Origen on astrology and peoples (second-third centuries CE)

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

Persians: Acts of Archelaos on Mani’s foreignness (early fourth century CE)