{"id":11354,"date":"2022-12-06T12:47:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T17:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=11354"},"modified":"2022-12-06T14:55:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T19:55:31","slug":"athens-presentation-you-are-the-bandit-criminalizing-conquered-peoples-and-some-retorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/12\/athens-presentation-you-are-the-bandit-criminalizing-conquered-peoples-and-some-retorts\/","title":{"rendered":"Finnish Institute at Athens presentation \u2013 \u2018You are the bandit!\u2019: Criminalizing Conquered Peoples, and Some Retorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sketch of the presentation and some sources for the &#8220;Northernness in Greek Ethnography&#8221; conference (Sunday Dec 11):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Intro: Criminalization of &#8220;barbarians&#8221; and the Scythian elder\u2019s retort to Alexander the bandit (in Rufus) as a starting-point (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/11\/scythian-wisdom-curtius-rufus-on-the-scythian-elders-speech-about-alexander-the-great-the-bandit-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Early theorizing about the shift from barbarian banditry to settled civilization in Thucydides, ca. 411 BCE (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/11\/barbarians-and-greeks-thucydides-theorizes-the-shift-from-barbarian-banditry-to-civilization-late-fifth-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Pairings of banditry with conquest and control: Athenian (ca. 424 BCE), Rhodian (ca. 200 BCE), and Roman (100 BCE) examples \u2013 inscriptions (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/12\/kretans-and-cilicians-athenians-rhodians-and-romans-pair-banditry-with-imperial-control-fifth-second-centuries-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Roman imperial apex of &#8220;bandit peoples&#8221;: Strabo and Livy (early first century)\n<ul>\n<li>Mountain peoples and the Bessians (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/09\/illyrians-pannonians-and-other-peoples-strabo-early-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Itureans (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/11\/itureans-among-arabians-strabo-and-josephos-josephus-on-a-supposed-bandit-people-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Judeans (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/06\/judeans-poseidonios-and-strabo-of-amaseia-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Roman imperial propaganda in practice: Northern peoples on the Danube and Rhine as &#8220;bandits&#8221; (inscriptions, second-third centuries CE) (<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=11184\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Responses from another &#8220;bandit&#8221; people: Judeans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sketch of the presentation and some sources for the &#8220;Northernness in Greek Ethnography&#8221; conference (Sunday Dec 11): Intro: Criminalization of &#8220;barbarians&#8221; and the Scythian elder\u2019s retort to Alexander the bandit (in Rufus) as a starting-point (link) Early theorizing about the shift from barbarian banditry to settled civilization in Thucydides, ca. 411 BCE (link) Pairings of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[296],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethnicity-ancient-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11354"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11368,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11354\/revisions\/11368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}