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