“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
