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subject	book bibliographic info
immigrant	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 328, 329, 330, 352, 358, 362 Skempis and Ziogas (2014), Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic 94, 296, 315, 321
immigrant, from thessaly, athena itonia	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 345, 348, 349, 358, 362, 363, 379
immigrant, graveyards	Tacoma (2016), Models from the Past in Roman Culture: A World of Exempla, 21, 212
immigrant, networks	Rupke (2016), Religious Deviance in the Roman World Superstition or Individuality?, 109
immigrant, philo, identifying as	Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 5, 19, 337
immigrant/immigration	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 29, 30, 33, 34, 36, 47, 53, 92, 136, 151, 181, 196, 216
immigrants	Gruen (2020), Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter, 49, 73, 77, 89, 163, 168 Tupamahu (2022), Contesting Languages: Heteroglossia and the Politics of Language in the Early Church, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 51, 67, 68, 77, 78, 86, 87, 93, 94, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 117, 118, 129, 130, 134, 143, 170, 184, 186, 197, 198, 206, 207, 212, 215
immigrants, and nomadism, migration, immigration	Poulsen (2021), Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography, 121, 163, 262, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 291, 292
immigrants, helplessness of	Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 56
immigrants, herodotus of halikarnassos, on ionian	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 120
immigrants, in rome	Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 235
immigrants, in rome, expulsions of	Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 235, 236, 237, 238
immigrants, in rome, fear of	Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 235, 307
immigrants, in rome, juvenal’s attack on	Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 231, 232
immigrants, in rome, lucian, on greek	Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 39, 233
immigrants, in rome, lucian’s satire on	Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 233
immigrants, migration, immigration	Poulsen (2021), Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography, 146, 272, 282, 283, 285, 287, 292
immigrants, proselytes, as	Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 5, 211, 212
immigrants, provincial	Tacoma (2016), Models from the Past in Roman Culture: A World of Exempla, 54, 57, 60, 118
immigrants, provincials	Lampe (2003), Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries: From Paul to Valentinus, 38, 39, 46, 55, 57, 59, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 118, 136, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 175, 182, 191, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 231, 234, 235, 236, 237, 239, 245, 257, 258, 259, 268, 269, 277, 281, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289, 290, 291, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 308, 309, 310, 311, 312, 313, 315, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320, 336, 337, 338, 339, 340, 341, 342, 344, 345, 349, 350, 351, 352, 382, 387, 395
immigrants, wealth and	Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 19, 56, 337
immigration	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 120, 164, 165, 166, 264, 269, 270
immigration, aristotle, on	Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 130
immigration, athenocentrism, sometimes misleading, autochthony vs.	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 241, 242, 246, 328, 399
immigration, of from europe, rabbis	Salvesen et al. (2020), Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period, 24, 583
immigration, of minority	Ando and Ruepke (2006), Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome, 103
immigration, opposition to	Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 130
immigration, plato, on mixture of city population and	Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 130, 296
immigration, to antioch	Zetterholm (2003), The Formation of Christianity in Antioch: A Social-Scientific Approach to the Separation Between Judaism and Christianity. 58, 89

List of validated texts:

7 validated results for "immigrants"

1. Dionysius of Halycarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 1.89 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • immigrants • immigration

Found in books: Gruen (2020), Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter, 73; Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 270

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1.89 1. \xa0Such, then, are the facts concerning the origin of the Romans which I\xa0have been able to discover a reading very diligently many works written by both Greek and Roman authors. Hence, from now on let the reader forever renounce the views of those who make Rome a retreat of barbarians, fugitives and vagabonds, and let him confidently affirm it to be a Greek city, â\x80\x94 which will be easy when he shows that it is at once the most hospitable and friendly of all cities, and when he bears in mind that the Aborigines were Oenotrians, and these in turn Arcadians,,2. \xa0and remembers those who joined with them in their settlement, the Pelasgians who were Argives by descent and came into Italy from Thessaly; and recalls, moreover, the arrival of Evander and the Arcadians, who settled round the Palatine hill, after the Aborigines had granted the place to them; and also the Peloponnesians, who, coming along with Hercules, settled upon the Saturnian hill; and, last of all, those who left the Troad and were intermixed with the earlier settlers. For one will find no nation that is more ancient or more Greek than these.,3. \xa0But the admixtures of the barbarians with the Romans, by which the city forgot many of its ancient institutions, happened at a later time. And it may well seem a cause of wonder to many who reflect on the natural course of events that Rome did not become entirely barbarized after receiving the Opicans, the Marsians, the Samnites, the Tyrrhenians, the Bruttians and many thousands of Umbrians, Ligurians, Iberians and Gauls, besides innumerable other nations, some of whom came from Italy itself and some from other regions and differed from one another both in their language and habits; for their very ways of life, diverse as they were and thrown into turmoil by such dissoce, might have been expected to cause many innovations in the ancient order of the city.,4. \xa0For many others by living among barbarians have in a short time forgotten all their Greek heritage, so that they neither speak the Greek language nor observe the customs of the Greeks nor acknowledge the same gods nor have the same equitable laws (by which most of all the spirit of the Greeks differs from that of the barbarians) nor agree with them in anything else whatever that relates to the ordinary intercourse of life. Those Achaeans who are settled near the Euxine sea are a sufficient proof of my contention; for, though originally Eleans, of a nation the most Greek of any, they are now the most savage of all barbarians. '' None

2. Philo of Alexandria, On The Special Laws, 1.52 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • immigrants • proselytes, as immigrants

Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 211; Gruen (2020), Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter, 163

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1.52 Accordingly, having given equal rank and honour to all those who come over, and having granted to them the same favours that were bestowed on the native Jews, he recommends those who are ennobled by truth not only to treat them with respect, but even with especial friendship and excessive benevolence. And is not this a reasonable recommendation? What he says is this. "Those men, who have left their country, and their friends, and their relations for the sake of virtue and holiness, ought not to be left destitute of some other cities, and houses, and friends, but there ought to be places of refuge always ready for those who come over to religion; for the most effectual allurement and the most indissoluble bond of affectionate good will is the mutual honouring of the one God." '' None

3. Philo of Alexandria, On The Virtues, 219 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Philo, identifying as immigrant • immigrants • proselytes, as immigrants

Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 5, 211; Gruen (2020), Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter, 163

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219 This man is the standard of nobleness to all who come to settle in a foreign land, leaving that ignobleness which attaches to them from foreign laws and unbecoming customs, which give honours, such as are due only to God, to stocks, and to stones, and, in short, to all kinds of iimate things; and who have thus come over to a constitution really full of vitality and life, the president and governor of which is truth. XL. '' None

4. Josephus Flavius, Jewish War, 2.308 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Provincials, immigrants • immigrants

Found in books: Gruen (2020), Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter, 168; Lampe (2003), Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries: From Paul to Valentinus, 83

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2.308 βαρυτέραν τε ἐποίει τὴν συμφορὰν τὸ καινὸν τῆς ̔Ρωμαίων ὠμότητος: ὃ γὰρ μηδεὶς πρότερον τότε Φλῶρος ἐτόλμησεν, ἄνδρας ἱππικοῦ τάγματος μαστιγῶσαί τε πρὸ τοῦ βήματος καὶ σταυρῷ προσηλῶσαι, ὧν εἰ καὶ τὸ γένος ̓Ιουδαίων ἀλλὰ γοῦν τὸ ἀξίωμα ̔Ρωμαϊκὸν ἦν.'' None

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2.308 And what made this calamity the heavier was this new method of Roman barbarity; for Florus ventured then to do what no one had done before, that is, to have men of the equestrian order whipped and nailed to the cross before his tribunal; who, although they were by birth Jews, yet were they of Roman dignity notwithstanding.'' None

5. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Philo, identifying as immigrant • immigrants • immigrants, wealth and

Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 19; Gruen (2020), Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter, 168

6. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Provincials, immigrants • fear of immigrants in Rome • immigrants • immigrants in Rome • immigrants in Rome, Juvenal’s attack on • immigration

Found in books: Gruen (2020), Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter, 89; Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 231, 232; Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 165, 270; Lampe (2003), Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries: From Paul to Valentinus, 352

7. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • immigrants • immigration, to Antioch

Found in books: Tupamahu (2022), Contesting Languages: Heteroglossia and the Politics of Language in the Early Church, 8, 77, 198, 207; Zetterholm (2003), The Formation of Christianity in Antioch: A Social-Scientific Approach to the Separation Between Judaism and Christianity. 89

Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

For a list of book indices included, see here.

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