A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean by Jeremy McInerney
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1444337343 | ISBN-13: 9781444337341 | 600 pages | PDF | 8,3 MB
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1444337343 | ISBN-13: 9781444337341 | 600 pages | PDF | 8,3 MB
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