Category Archives: Kyprians / Cyprians

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

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

Taurians, Gauls, and Romans: Lactantius on human sacrifice and other criminal rituals to false gods (early fourth century CE)