{"id":22721,"date":"2026-03-15T12:07:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T16:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=22721"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:29:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:29:30","slug":"ancient-visual-ethnography-picturing-invading-and-conquered-peoples-pomona-college-classics-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2026\/03\/ancient-visual-ethnography-picturing-invading-and-conquered-peoples-pomona-college-classics-presentation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Visual Ethnography: Picturing Invading and Conquered Peoples (Pomona College, Classics presentation, April 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Galatian invaders characterized by Greeks in Asia Minor (279-160s BCE)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1a) Galatian \/ Celtic invader clubbed by Herakles at Kyzikos (<a href=\"https:\/\/philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=12123\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>1b) Priene inscription on &#8220;impious&#8221; and &#8220;savage&#8221; Galatians (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/01\/celts-galatians-priene-inscription-on-galatian-impiety-and-savagery-during-the-invasion-ca-278-270-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>2) Nude Galatian warrior crushed by a war-elephant (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/11\/celts-inhabitants-of-myrina-with-images-of-galatian-warriors-second-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>3) Nude savagely-portrayed Galatian warrior (same link)<\/li>\n<li>4) &#8220;Little barbarians&#8221; with some likely association to Attalid monumental depictions (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/08\/celts-persians-and-amazons-smaller-statues-of-fighting-and-dying-barbarians-associated-with-attalos-i-of-pergamon-third-century-bce-second-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>5) Isidoros the Galatian and other mercenaries buried near Alexandria in Egypt (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/03\/celtic-galatian-diasporas-mercenaries-settled-at-alexandria-in-egypt-ca-250-200-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Conquered peoples of the world at the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias (mid-first century CE)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>South portico<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>S1) Overall view of the Sebasteion from the temple at the western end, facing towards the main entrance (<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/ce\/Turkey._The_Sebasteion.jpg\/3840px-Turkey._The_Sebasteion.jpg\">link<\/a>; photo by Feridun F. Alkaya, Wikimedia)<\/li>\n<li>S2) Goddess Roma with bound male captive (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2026\/03\/northerners-captives-in-the-reliefs-from-the-sebasteion-at-aphrodisias-mid-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>S3) Imperial figure and the Roman People or Senate with bound female captive (same link)<\/li>\n<li>S4) Coin on Julius Caesar&#8217;s defeat of Gauls with two captives (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/08\/judeans-jews-armenians-dacians-egyptians-and-other-peoples-defeat-capture-and-subjugation-on-roman-imperial-coinage-first-third-centuries-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>S5) Coin on Vespasian&#8217;s defeat of Judea with sad female captive (same link)<\/li>\n<li>S6) Claudius conquering Britannia (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/09\/reliefs-of-subjugated-peoples-at-aphrodisias\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>S7) Nero conquering Armenia (same link)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>North portico<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>N1) Piroustians personified as a woman (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/09\/reliefs-of-subjugated-peoples-at-aphrodisias\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>N2) Dacians (same link)<\/li>\n<li>N3) Bessians (same link)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galatian invaders characterized by Greeks in Asia Minor (279-160s BCE) 1a) Galatian \/ Celtic invader clubbed by Herakles at Kyzikos (link) 1b) Priene inscription on &#8220;impious&#8221; and &#8220;savage&#8221; Galatians (link) 2) Nude Galatian warrior crushed by a war-elephant (link) 3) Nude savagely-portrayed Galatian warrior (same link) 4) &#8220;Little barbarians&#8221; with some likely association to Attalid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-03-visual-ethnography-via-archeology","category-ancient-ethnography-ethnographic-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22721","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=22721"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22762,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22721\/revisions\/22762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}