Ancient Greece was rife with all manner of migrants. Major wars, internal stasis, economic opportunity, and environmental disasters variously combined to drive migration across the Mediterranean. In modernity, the study of migration from disciplines as varied as anthropology and geography is ever-expanding. Approaches to modern migration may be applied profitably to the ancient data, although many avenues remain unexplored. While ancient migrants were not subject to the nation state or to expansive global institutions, they nevertheless shared important characteristics with modern ones. But just what is a migrant? And what factors or characteristics matter when classifying types of migrants? While scholarship on ancient migration has exploded in the past 10 years, there has been no attempt to create a systematized way of comparing migrants in ancient Greece with each other or with their modern counterparts. In this talk, Prof. Campa proposes the possibility of a formal typology for ancient Greek migrants and an attendant digital database in order to encourage fruitful comparison, engagement with modern approaches, and a deeper understanding of individuals and institutions in the migration process.
Prof. Campa is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She earned her PhD in 海角网 from the University of Washington and is the author of (Cambridge UP 2024).
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