A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean

• Author(s): Jeremy McInerney,
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Pages: 608
• ISBN_10: 1118834380
  ISBN_13: 9781118834381
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical , History / General , History / Ancient / General ,

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A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean presents a comprehensive collection of essays contributed by Classical Studies scholars that explore questions relating to ethnicity in the ancient Mediterranean world.

• Covers topics of ethnicity in civilizations ranging from ancient Egypt and Israel, to Greece and Rome, and into Late Antiquity
• Features cutting-edge research on ethnicity relating to Philistine, Etruscan, and Phoenician identities
• Reveals the explicit relationships between ancient and modern ethnicities
• Introduces an interpretation of ethnicity as an active component of social identity
• Represents a fundamental questioning of formally accepted and fixed categories in the field