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 AntiquityFeatures cutting-edge research on ethnicity relating to Philistine, Etruscan, and Phoenician identitiesReveals the explicit relationships between ancient and modern ethnicitiesIntroduces an interpretation of ethnicity as an active component of social identityRepresents a fundamental questioning of formally accepted and fixed categories in the field