A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean McInerney Hardback

A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient MediterraneanAuthor(s): Jeremy McInerney\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Wiley-Blackwell\nISBN-13: 9781444337341, 978-1444337341\nSynopsis\nA 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.\n\nCovers topics of ethnicity in civilizations ranging from ancient Egypt and Israel, to Greece and Rome, and into Late Antiquity\nFeatures cutting-edge research on ethnicity relating to Philistine, Etruscan, and Phoenician identities\nReveals the explicit relationships between ancient and modern ethnicities\nIntroduces an interpretation of ethnicity as an active component of social identity\nRepresents a fundamental questioning of formally accepted and fixed categories in the field