A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean
A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) by Jeremy McInerney
2014 | ISBN: 1444337343 | English | 600 pages | EPUB | 14 MB
2014 | ISBN: 1444337343 | English | 600 pages | EPUB | 14 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