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: Theophrastos (Greek)

Barbarians and Greeks: Theophrastos theorizes hierarchical relations of humans and animals (fourth century BCE)

Judean wisdom: Theophrastos on Judean philosophers (fourth century BCE)

Judeans, Syrians, Indians, and others: Porphyry of Tyre on abstinence from meat (third century CE)

Mediterranean peoples: Pliny the Elder on inventors around the world (first century CE)