How Ancient Greek Mercenaries Shaped Culture and Identity Across the Mediterranean

How Ancient Greek Mercenaries Shaped Culture and Identity Across the Mediterranean

AI reconstruction of Greek and Karian soldiers moving through an Egyptian marketplace. Credit: GR Archive Greek soldiers who took part in war during the archaic period in the Mediterranean did far more than fight. A new study argues they served as cultural carriers who quietly transformed art, religion, and ethnic identity across the ancient world. That is the argument of Nino Luraghi of the University of Oxford, published in Annales. Histoire, …