Irad Malkin is Maxwell Cummings Family Chair for the Study of Mediterranean History and Culture and Professor of Ancient Greek History at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Religion and Colonization in Ancient Greece (1987), Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean (1994), and The Returns of Odysseus: Colonization and Ethnicity (1998) and the editor of several books on issues of Mediterranean history and ancient ethnicity.

• Introduction Irad Malkin On the Boundless Sea of Unlikeness? On Defining the Mediterranean Nicholas Purcell Mediterraneanization Ian Morris Networks and the Emergence of Greek Identity Irad Malkin Cultures, Landscapes, and Identities in the Mediterranean World Lin Foxhall A Peculiar Island: Maghrib and Mediterranean Brent D. Shaw A Sea of Faith? Greg Woolf