Category Archives: Athenaios (Greek)

Assyrians, Medes and Persians: Ktesias on Persian Matters via Diodoros and Photios (early fourth century BCE)

Babylonian perspectives: Bel-re’ushu / Berossos on the origins of civilization (late fourth century BCE)

Celts: Phylarchos and Poseidonios on banqueting and violent customs (first century BCE)

Egyptian, Phoenician, and Phrygian wisdom: Ephoros on inventors (mid-fourth century BCE)

Egyptians: Lykeas of Naukratis on Egyptian kings and meals (first century CE or earlier)

Iapygians and Tarentines: Klearchos of Soloi (fourth century BCE)

Indians: Phylarchos on roots for sexual restraint (early second century BCE)

Libyan perspectives: Juba of Numidia on ethnographic matters (late first century BCE)

Lycians: Menekrates of Xanthos and Polycharmos on Lycian origins and the practice of fish-divination (late fifth century BCE on)

Persians and Medes: Douris, Herakleides, Klearchos, and others on royal banquets (fifth-fourth centuries BCE)

Scythians: Klearchos of Soloi (fourth century BCE)

Thracians: Charon of Lampsakos on relations between Bisaltians and Greek Kardians (mid-fifth century BCE)

Tyrrhenians: Theopompos on the Etruscans’ supposed sexual deviance and freedom (mid-fourth century BCE)