To have no refuge, to be without a fatherland, daily to suffer hardships and to watch without having the power to succor the suffering of one's own, why need I say how far this has exceeded all other calamities? Isocrates. Plataicus. Speech 14. Section 55.
Excellent article on how the ancient Greeks dealt with war refugees:
Image: Detail of the Standard of Ur Sumerian 26th century BCE photographed at the British Museum.
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