Migrants and Membership Regimes in the Ancient Greek World (400 BCE – 100 CE) is a cross-disciplinary research project based at the University of Copenhagen (2020-24) and funded by Danish a Sapere Aude grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF).
Migration was an important feature of the ancient Greek world. Evidence from funerary inscriptions are pertinent reminders that every Greek city was home to populations who had migrated from elsewhere in the Greek world— and beyond—or were the descendants of immigrants. For a substantial number of the inhabitants of the ancient Greek world migration in some form played a vital part in shaping aspirations, opportunities, behaviour, beliefs and outcomes.
The project investigated a range of aspects of migration in the Hellenistic world where they intersect with wealth, legal status, skills, age and gender.
Read about the project and its participants here.
Christian A Thomsen 