A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean

McInerney, Jeremy

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

Details

Published by: Wiley-Blackwell

Publication Date: 2014-08-25

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781444337341

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Dimensions: 248.9cm x177.8cm

Pages: 608.0