Database: Brigandage

Looting and theft, two words often linked to banditry in ancient Greece, were considered by some ancient authors to be a way of making a living, alongside herding, fishing, hunting, and farming. This occupation did not seem to have had for the Ancient Greeks an offensive connotation. The population was still expected to be able to defend themselves against bandits, to the point where the men of northwest Greece took up arms in the 5th century BCE.