Category Archives: Illyrians (north of Greece)

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

Barbarian peoples: Hellanikos, Nymphodoros, Nikolaos, and others with collections of “barbarian customs” (fifth century BCE on)

Getians, Dacians, and Scythians: Strabo (early first century CE)

Pelasgians, Lelegians, and others: Hekataios of Miletos and Strabo on barbarians of Greece (sixth century BCE on)

Romans: Strabo on Roman superiority and conquest of peoples (early first century CE)

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