A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean

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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 h ...

A COMPANION TO ETHNICITY IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN Edited by Jeremy McInerney ...

This edition first published 2014 © 2014 John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Registered Office John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Sout ...

Contents Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xv 1 Ethnicity: An Introduction 1 Jeremy McInerney 2 Ethnicity and Language in ...

vi Contents 11 Ethnicity in Empire: Assyrians and Others 158 Geoff Emberling 12 Achaemenids, Royal Power, and Persian Ethnicity ...

Contents vii 29 Romans and Italians 437 Gary D. Farney 30 Roman Elite Ethnicity 455 Parshia Lee-Stecum 31 Ethnicity in Roman Rel ...

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Notes on Contributors Corinne Bonnetis professor of ancient history in the University of Toulouse and member of the Institut Uni ...

x Notes on Contributors Geoff Emberling is assistant research scientist in the Kelsey Museum of Archae- ology, University of Mic ...

Notes on Contributors xi indigenous peoples, ethnicity, compara- tive frontiers, and world-systems anal- ysis. He is coauthor, w ...

xii Notes on Contributors the Western Mediterranean, ethnic and cultural identities in the ancient world, and the development of ...

Notes on Contributors xiii Asia Minor, and the economy of the Greek and Roman world. He is the author of Regionalism and Change ...

xiv Notes on Contributors the city of Rome and the Roman Cam- pagna. He is currently working on the civil war violence of the 80 ...

Acknowledgments A great many people, including students, friends, and colleagues, played a role in bring- ing this volume to pub ...

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CHAPTER 1 Ethnicity An Introduction Jeremy McInerney “Unfortunately for us, the last 200 years have been the most mismanaged in ...

2 Jeremy McInerney its hortatory sense—ourrace—can conceal deeper complexities. At the time of first con- tact, indigenous Austr ...