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Ancient and modern

How the ancients handled refugees

2 October 2021

9:00 AM

2 October 2021

9:00 AM

Hardly a day goes by without headlines about immigrants, asylum-seekers and refugees. In the ancient world, movements of people were also very common (state boundaries did not exist), often because war, famine or exile left them with no option. So how did refugees try to win acceptance?

In Homer’s world of heroes (c.

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