McInerney - A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)

This series provides sophisticated and authoritative overviews of periods of ancient history, genres of classical literature, and the most important themes in ancient culture. Each volume comprises approximately twenty-five and forty concise essays written by individual scholars within their area of specialization. The essays are written in a clear, provocative, and lively manner, designed for an international audience of scholars, students, and general readers.

1. ANCIENT HISTORY
2. A Companion to the Roman Army
3. Edited by Paul Erdkamp
4. A Companion to the Roman Republic
5. Edited by Nathan Rosenstein and Robert Morstein-Marx
6. A Companion to the Roman Empire
7. Edited by David S. Potter
8. A Companion to the Classical Greek World
9. Edited by Konrad H. Kinzl
10. A Companion to the Ancient Near East
11. Edited by Daniel C. Snell
12. A Companion to the Hellenistic World
13. Edited by Andrew Erskine
14. A Companion to Late Antiquity
15. Edited by Philip Rousseau
16. A Companion to Ancient History
17. Edited by Andrew Erskine
18. A Companion to Archaic Greece
19. Edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub and Hans van Wees
20. A Companion to Julius Caesar
21. Edited by Miriam Griffin
22. A Companion to Byzantium
23. Edited by Liz James
24. A Companion to Ancient Egypt
25. Edited by Alan B. Lloyd
26. A Companion to Ancient Macedonia
27. Edited by Joseph Roisman and Ian Worthington
28. A Companion to the Punic Wars
29. Edited by Dexter Hoyos
30. A Companion to Augustine
31. Edited by Mark Vessey
32. A Companion to Marcus Aurelius
33. Edited by Marcel van Ackeren
34. A Companion to Ancient Greek Government
35. Edited by Hans Beck
36. A Companion to the Neronian Age
37. Edited by Emma Buckley and Martin T. Dinter
38. LITERATURE AND CULTURE
39. A Companion to Classical Receptions
40. Edited by Lorna Hardwick and Christopher Stray
41. A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography
42. Edited by John Marincola
43. A Companion to Catullus
44. Edited by Marilyn B. Skinner
45. A Companion to Roman Religion
46. Edited by Jrg Rpke
47. A Companion to Greek Religion
48. Edited by Daniel Ogden
49. A Companion to the Classical Tradition
50. Edited by Craig W. Kallendorf
51. A Companion to Roman Rhetoric
52. Edited by William Dominik and Jon Hall
53. A Companion to Greek Rhetoric
54. Edited by Ian Worthington
55. A Companion to Ancient Epic
56. Edited by John Miles Foley
57. A Companion to Greek Tragedy
58. Edited by Justina Gregory
59. A Companion to Latin Literature
60. Edited by Stephen Harrison
61. A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought
62. Edited by Ryan K. Balot
63. A Companion to Ovid
64. Edited by Peter E. Knox
65. A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language
66. Edited by Egbert Bakker
67. A Companion to Hellenistic Literature
68. Edited by Martine Cuypers and James J. Clauss
69. A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition
70. Edited by Joseph Farrell and Michael C. J. Putnam
71. A Companion to Horace
72. Edited by Gregson Davis
73. A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds
74. Edited by Beryl Rawson
75. A Companion to Greek Mythology
76. Edited by Ken Dowden and Niall Livingstone
77. A Companion to the Latin Language
78. Edited by James Clackson
79. A Companion to Tacitus
80. Edited by Victoria Emma Pagn
81. A Companion to Women in the Ancient World
82. Edited by Sharon L. James and Sheila Dillon
83. A Companion to Sophocles
84. Edited by Kirk Ormand
85. A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
86. Edited by Daniel Potts
87. A Companion to Roman Love Elegy
88. Edited by Barbara K. Gold
89. A Companion to Greek Art
90. Edited by Tyler Jo Smith and Dimitris Plantzos
91. A Companion to Persius and Juvenal
92. Edited by Susanna Braund and Josiah Osgood
93. A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic
94. Edited by Jane DeRose Evans
95. A Companion to Terence
96. Edited by Antony Augoustakis and Ariana Traill
97. A Companion to Roman Architecture
98. Edited by Roger B. Ulrich and Caroline K. Quenemoen
99. A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity
100. Edited by Paul Christesen and Donald G. Kyle
101. A Companion to Plutarch
102. Edited by Mark Beck
103. Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities
104. Edited by Thomas K. Hubbard
105. A Companion to the Ancient Novel
106. Edited by Edmund P. Cueva and Shannon N. Byrne

This edition first published 2014

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

A companion to ethnicity in the ancient Mediterranean / edited by Jeremy McInerney.

pages cm

Includes index.

ISBN 978-1-4443-3734-1 (cloth)

1. EthnologyMediterranean Region. 2. Mediterranean RegionEthnic identity. I. McInerney, Jeremy, 1958-DE73.C66 2014