Poetic description of a Greek courtesan from 4th C India. By this point, Rome was exporting Greek slaves as far east as China. Exotic women from far away were status symbols for elites everywhere

Modern nationalist history and popular imagination from all of these regions completely ignore the immensity and reach of these global slave trades. People prefer imagining that the civilizations they romanticize weren't constantly enslaving and selling their own to other people.

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>Mediterranean slaves show up not just in Indian sources, but also in the Persian Empire and as far as Han China. (124) In India, Greeks were abundant enough to appear in multiple roles across a millennium of sources. They were not unique. Greek women were just one of a dozen ethnicities in lists of harem attendants. As forced migrants to a culture which purchased prestige by owning or renting bodies of foreign slaves, they joined multitudes of women throughout the world and throughout the centuries to the present time, women who lost their freedom and endured long-distance displacement so their bodies could be commodified to provide exotica and sex for the rich.