Identities in Antiquity

Joseph Skinner is Senior Lecturer in Ancient Greek History at Newcastle University. His publications include The Invention of Greek Ethnography: From Homer to Herodotus (New York, 2012), and (as co-editor) Ancient Ethnography: New Approaches (London, 2013) and Herodotus and the Long Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, 2020).Vicky Manolopoulou is Research Fellow in Environmental History at Ca’Foscari University, Venice. Her work centres on the intersection of landscape studies, environmental humanities, and the history of emotions, focusing on the Eastern Mediterranean during the first millennium. Key research interests include human environment interactions, emotions, ritual, and mnemonic landscapes.Christina Tsouparopoulou is Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Archaeology and History at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Honorary Research Fellow at Durham University and Editor of Near Eastern Archaeology. Her work bridges the material, visual, and textual culture of the ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean.

• Acknowledgements List of illustrations List of Abbreviations Notes on contributors IntroductionJoseph Skinner, Vicky Manolopoulou, and Christina TsouparopoulouPART I Approaching ancient identities 1 Challenging essentialism: disentangling ancient and modern notions of ethnicity Johannes Siapkas2 Elite identities: Greece and Egypt in comparative perspective Matthew Haysom3 The identities of enslaved persons Kostas Vlassopoulos4 Personal names and identity: a socio-onomastic approach to naming practices in the ancient world Andreas Gavrielatos5 Religious identities in ancient cities Jörg Rüpke6 Open dynamic stewardship: alternatives to understanding diversity and transformation Elena IsayevPART II The ancient Near East7 Construction of gender identities in Mesopotamia Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Saana Svärd8 Mercantile and religious identities in Anatolia in the Middle Bronze Age Yağmur Heffron and Nancy Highcock9 The identities of enslaved persons in ancient Mesopotamia J. Nicholas Reid10 Exilic communities in Babylonia Laurie Pearce11 Ancient Judaism: nation, ethnicity, or religion? Erich S. GruenPART III The Mediterranean world until the age of the successors 12 A community of practice perspective on craft production and culture change in the Bronze Age Cyclades Natalie Abell13 Reconstructing Phoenician identities: a glass half-full Carolina López-Ruiz14 Transcultural tokens of identity: the mechanics of crossing borders in the ancient Mediterranean Denise Demetriou15 Classical Greek racism 294Thomas Harrison16 Race and the Athenian metic Rebecca Futo Kennedy17 Greek local identity and Greek local history Daniel ToberPART IV The Roman world: from early republic to late empire 18 Roman aristocratic family identity in the Late Republic and Early Empire Gary D. Farney19 Identities of enslaved persons in the Roman world Christer Bruun20 Identity construction in Alexandria: Greeks, Jews and Romans Kimberley Czajkowski21 Roman military identities Andrew GardnerPART V From Late Antiquity until the Early Middle Ages: Rome, Byzantium and others 22 Peripheral identities: ethnicity, Anglo-Saxons and the Stützarmfibeln James Gerrard23 The identity of the Huns Hyun Jin Kim24 Sacrifice, banquets, and drunken elephants: the problem of Christian identity in Libanius’s Oration 30 Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos25 The open secret of Byzantium’s national identity Anthony Kaldellis26 Demarcating Rome: the papal strategy of Othering and the re-invention of Greeks Clemens Gantner27 The case of Manuel I Komnenos: articulating identity through gender, sexuality, and racialization Roland BetancourtIndex