A conference on migration as a catalyst for change in the Ancient Greek world. Copenhagen 24-25 June 2022.
The rules, beliefs and resources that guide the settlement and integration of migrants.
Migrants and Membership Regimes joins four case studies
Can a few words capture an entire life? We might perhaps entertain an answer as we contemplate the character and contents of funerary epigrams. Their elegant compositions inscribed on ancient stones have an uncanny power to stimulate our imagination and summon intimate portraits of individuals long gone. One such epigram introduces us to a certain…
Ancient Greece is often thought of as a fragmented and parochial world, where communication was slow and knowledge about what was going on was scarce. But if we take a closer look at the Mediterranean Sea that linked Greek, Phoenician, Italiote, African and Iberian communities in the ancient world, we get quite a different picture of the intensity, variety and speed of ancient mobility and inter-state interaction.
Migrants and Membership Regimes in the Ancient Greek World 