Category Archives: Ionians (in Asia Minor)

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

Carians: Strabo on long-term interactions with Greeks and on “Carianizing” (early first century CE)

Egyptians: Herodotos on customs and legendary kings (fifth century BCE)

Judeans, “Asiatics”, and Greeks: Cicero’s ethnic invective aimed at eastern witnesses against Flaccus (mid-first century BCE)

Lydians: Herodotos on king Croesus and Lydian customs (mid-fifth century BCE)

Medes, Assyrians, Baktrians, and others: Herodotos on the mixed composition of the Persian army under Xerxes (fifth century BCE)

Mediterranean peoples: Polemon theorizes the meaning of physical features (second / fifth centuries CE)

Pelasgian diasporas: Hekataios of Miletos and Herodotos on legends of migration, language, and influence (sixth century BCE)