Philip A. Harland is professor in the Departments of Humanities and History at York University in Toronto. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations; Dynamics of Identity in the World of the Early Christians; and Group Survival in the Ancient Mediterranean.

Exceptionally detailed in its analysis, Ethnic Relations in the Ancient Mediterranean is an exciting, comprehensive, and well-researched book that will make a significant impact on the study of ethnicity in Mediterranean antiquity. This work is unique in its chronological and geographical sweep, considering dynamics of identity discourse from Herodotos to the early imperial period, which allows us to see ancient ethnic discourses from a variety of different perspectives and angles. Harland also pays careful attention to the imperial, colonial, and geopolitical contexts that shaped discourses of ethnicity, looking at subject peoples within colonial contexts or dotting the margins of imperial control.”

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction1. Imagining Ethnic Hierarchies2. Revisiting Wise “Barbarians” and Noble “Primitives”3. Asserting Civilizational Priority4. Navigating Diversity at the Village Level5. Contesting Hierarchies6. Visualizing Invading and Conquered Peoples7. Criminalizing Frontier and Liminal Populations8. Countering and Redirecting CriminalizationConclusionAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex

Philip A. Harland is professor in the Departments of Humanities and History at York University in Toronto. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations; Dynamics of Identity in the World of the Early Christians; and Group Survival in the Ancient Mediterranean.

Exceptionally detailed in its analysis, Ethnic Relations in the Ancient Mediterranean is an exciting, comprehensive, and well-researched book that will make a significant impact on the study of ethnicity in Mediterranean antiquity. This work is unique in its chronological and geographical sweep, considering dynamics of identity discourse from Herodotos to the early imperial period, which allows us to see ancient ethnic discourses from a variety of different perspectives and angles. Harland also pays careful attention to the imperial, colonial, and geopolitical contexts that shaped discourses of ethnicity, looking at subject peoples within colonial contexts or dotting the margins of imperial control.”

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction1. Imagining Ethnic Hierarchies2. Revisiting Wise “Barbarians” and Noble “Primitives”3. Asserting Civilizational Priority4. Navigating Diversity at the Village Level5. Contesting Hierarchies6. Visualizing Invading and Conquered Peoples7. Criminalizing Frontier and Liminal Populations8. Countering and Redirecting CriminalizationConclusionAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex

Philip A. Harland is professor in the Departments of Humanities and History at York University in Toronto. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations; Dynamics of Identity in the World of the Early Christians; and Group Survival in the Ancient Mediterranean.

Exceptionally detailed in its analysis, Ethnic Relations in the Ancient Mediterranean is an exciting, comprehensive, and well-researched book that will make a significant impact on the study of ethnicity in Mediterranean antiquity. This work is unique in its chronological and geographical sweep, considering dynamics of identity discourse from Herodotos to the early imperial period, which allows us to see ancient ethnic discourses from a variety of different perspectives and angles. Harland also pays careful attention to the imperial, colonial, and geopolitical contexts that shaped discourses of ethnicity, looking at subject peoples within colonial contexts or dotting the margins of imperial control.”

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction1. Imagining Ethnic Hierarchies2. Revisiting Wise “Barbarians” and Noble “Primitives”3. Asserting Civilizational Priority4. Navigating Diversity at the Village Level5. Contesting Hierarchies6. Visualizing Invading and Conquered Peoples7. Criminalizing Frontier and Liminal Populations8. Countering and Redirecting CriminalizationConclusionAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex