Category Archives: Maia Kotrosits

Arabians: Pseudo-Nilus on barbarian bandits and Saracens in the Sinai desert (early fifth century CE)

Barbarian wisdom: The Thunder, Perfect Mind (before the fourth century CE)

Barbarians: Modern colonial repurposing of images of captives

Britons, Armenians, Bessians, and others: Reliefs of subjugated peoples at Aphrodisias (first century CE)

Celts: Diodoros on Galatian origins and “savage” customs (mid-first century BCE)

Christians, Judeans, and Greeks: Christians as a descent group in the Epistle to Diognetos (second or third century CE)

Cretans: Stereotypes in the letter to Titus (early second century CE)

Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Phoenicians: Julius Africanus on competitive chronologies (ca. 222 CE)

Ethiopians and Arabians: Nonnosos on Saracens and on a hairy people (sixth century CE)

Ethiopians, Nubians, and Egyptians: Christian authors picturing darker-skinned peoples as “demons” (second century CE on)

Ethiopians: Palladios and others on Abba Moses the former bandit with darker skin (fourth-fifth centuries CE)

Judeans and others: The Gospel of Philip (before the fourth century CE)

Judeans: Ignatius on Judaizing and Christianizing (early second century CE)

Libyans / Africans: Ancient and modern composite statue of “The Moor”

Ligurians: Diodoros on their harsh environment, hard work and noble spirit (mid-first century BCE)

Parthians, Libyans, Egyptians and others: Acts of the Apostles on legends of Judean migration (early second century CE)

Phoenicians: Gospel of Mark on Jesus and a Syro-Phoenician woman (late first century CE)

Samaritans and Judeans: Belonging to Israel in the Gospels (first century CE)

Scythians and barbarians: Colossians and others on ritual recitations (late first or early second century CE)