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: Sidonians (subset of Phoenicians)

Babylonian diasporas: Josephos and other Judeans on legends of migration from Babel (first-second centuries CE)

Ethnic diversity in Egypt: Inscriptional and papyrological evidence

Idumean diasporas: Inscriptions and papyri (second century BCE-third century CE)

Israelites, Egyptians, Idumeans, Scythians, and others: Origen on ethnic hierarchies and their spiritual equivalents (mid-third century CE)

Phoenicians: Strabo on the achievements of Tyrians and Sidonians (early first century CE)