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Seres/Serae

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: M.U. Erdosy
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Anika Campbell, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Richard Talbert, Michael Heubel, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes, Ryan Horne
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Mar 25, 2026 07:13 PM — History
An ancient people, tribe, or cultural group whom we would situate in northern China. Their location and identity were usually confused with Scythians and Parthians up to Pliny's time. The names "Seres" and "Serae" are evidently derived from the Chinese "sī" for silk, and so the Chinese silk trade with the west is assumed to have have played a formative role in the Greek and Roman perception of this people.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/60042

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    • Serae (330 BC - AD 300)
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map label location, people, tribe (historical cultural group)

Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 6 G2 Serae

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: CHN (usually confused with Scythians and Parthians up to Pliny's time)


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M.U. Erdosy, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Anika Campbell, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Richard Talbert, Michael Heubel, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes, and Ryan Horne, 'Seres/Serae: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/60042> [accessed: 19 July 2026] 

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