Mobility and Migration in Antiquity Rethinking the Ancient World through Movement

List of Contributors

List of Figures

INTRODUCTION - Jana Mokrišová, Benjamin Gray, Elena Isayev, Selim Ferruh Adalı, Evan Jewell, Turhan Kaçar, and Lindsey A. Mazurek

SECTION 1: A borderless world? Rethinking boundaries, edges, and borderlands through movement

1. Archaeogenetics and modes of mobility in the ancient Mediterranean - Hannah M. Moots and Mehmet Somel

2. Mobility and borderlands in Hittite Anatolia - N. İlgi Gerçek

3. Religion and mobility: a Phoenician case study from the western Mediterranean - Megan Daniels

4. Creating borders: early Greek mobilities in Ionia and Cilicia = Naoíse Mac Sweeney and Jana Mokrišová

5. Who can stay? Wrongful presence, inutility and expulsion of citizens in the Roman Empire - Elena Isayev

6. People in motion: rethinking Mediterranean mobility in the Byzantine period using bioarchaeological data - Efthymia Nikita

SECTION 2: Environmental adaptations: rethinking lifeways and climatic change through movement

7. How close is a neighbor? Demography, maritime networks and disaster in the Bronze Age Cyclades (Greece) - Katherine Jarriel

8. The grass is (almost) always greener in Egypt: Libyans, Sea Peoples and climate migration at the end of the Late Bronze Age - Ellen Morris

9. Processes of colonial migration in the Iron Age: economic and environmental considerations - Adam W. Schneider

10. Should I stay or should I go? Some considerations on mobility and sedentism in (pre-)Roman Italy - Christian Heitz

11. Mosquito colonizers versus human colonizers: the environmental-epidemiological inflections of Roman colonial mobility in Republican-era Italy - Evan Jewell

SECTION 3: Cosmopolitanism: rethinking regimes of belonging through movement

12. Mobility and the making of Greek political thought: Aristotle Politics III in context - Benjamin Gray

13. The almost citizens: Plataeans between metoikia and citizenship - Tim Shea and Rebecca Futo Kennedy

14. Patterns of migration in the eastern Mediterranean c. 400 BCE – c. 100 CE - Christian A. Thomsen, Kira L. Larsen and Maja Rechendorff Møller

15. What’s a woman got to do with it? Migration to the Aegean islands in the Hellenistic and early Imperial periods - Julietta Steinhauer

16. Citizenship and mobility in the city of Rome - Olivia Elder

17. The Piazzale delle Corporazioni as a space of diaspora in Roman Ostia - Lindsey A. Mazurek

SECTION 4: Forced mobility and displacement: rethinking imperialism and violence through movement

18. War captives and mass deportations in the Urartian kingdom: an overview - Ali Çifçi

19. “Forced” migration: people on the move between Ionia and the Black Sea - Veronika Sossau

20. Between “evacuation” and “being kicked out”: mapping the ancient terminology of forcible population expulsions onto lived experience in the ancient Greek world - James Hua

21. Imperial ideology, destruction, enslavement and deportation: comparative perspectives on forced migration in Hellenistic Greece - Ryan Boehm

22. Exile in later Greek discourse and the pseudonymous letters of Themistocles - Zilong Guo

23. Geographic mobility in the Familia Caesaris - Rose MacLean

SECTION 5: Trade, craft, and labour: rethinking technology and knowledge through movement

24. Craft mobility and the Mycenaean palaces: travelling masons, labourers and metalsmiths?  - Nicholas Blackwell

25. The local(e) jokes of Plautine comedy - Hans Bork

26. Human mobility and technological transfer in the mining industry of the Iberian peninsula - Linda R. Gosner and Claire Holleran

27. Controlled mobility, controlled trade: institutional and physical management of commercial shipping in Roman ports during the High Empire - Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz

SECTION 6: Journeys and pilgrimages: rethinking religion and networks through movement

28. Murderous migrants in Homer - Eunice Kim

29. Souvenirs as products and agents of mobility in the Roman Empire - Maggie L. Popkin

30. Ecclesiastical mobility in Late Antiquity - Turhan Kaçar

31. Pilgrim’s progress: the bioarchaeology of Byzantine monasticism and pilgrimage to the Holy Land - Lesley A. Gregoricka, Susan G. Sheridan and Margaret A. Judd

32. Religious institutions and human movement across the Indian Ocean - Jeremy Simmons and Suchandra Ghosh

SECTION 7: Who does not move in the Near East? Rethinking paradigms of sedentism and gender through movement

33. Women’s sedentary lifestyle in the ancient Near East between myth and reality: the case of the Assyrian women in the nineteenth century BCE - Cécile Michel

34. A woman’s place is in the house? Perspectives on women’s mobility in Sumerian didactic literature - Jana Matuszak

35. Intersectional approaches to women’s mobility in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia - Nancy Highcock

36. Residential mobility in Mesopotamia’s Old Babylonian period - Seth Richardson

37. Immobility in Iron Age ideologies: the case of Assyria in the ancient Near East - Selim Ferruh Adalı

EPILOGUE

38. Anchored mobilities? (Dis)connecting the Mediterranean on a 14-m wooden boat - Elizabeth S. Greene and Justin Leidwanger

39. Migrations and the Non-Human. Ecologies in the Year of the Locust - Dan-el Padilla Peralta

Index

Biography

Selim Ferruh Adalı is Professor of Ancient History at Social Sciences University of Ankara, Türkiye.

Benjamin Gray is Assistant Professor in Classics at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Elena Isayev is Professor of Ancient History and Place at University of Exeter, UK.

Evan Jewell is currently Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University – Camden, USA.

Turhan Kaçar is Professor of Ancient History at Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Türkiye.

Lindsey A. Mazurek is Associate Professor of Roman Archaeology and Director of the Program in Ancient Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.

Jana Mokrišová is Assistant Professor of Archaeology of the Ancient Greek World at Brown University, USA.