Community and Identity at the Edges of the Classical World

A timely andacademically-significantcontribution to scholarship oncommunity, identity, and globalization in the RomanandHellenistic worlds

Community and Identity at the Edges of the Classical World examinestheconstruction ofpersonal and communal identities in the ancient world, exploringhow globalism, multi-culturalism, and other macro events influencedmicro identitiesthroughout the Hellenistic and Roman empires. This innovative volumediscusseswhere contact and the sharing of ideas was occurringin the time period, and appliesmodern theories based on networks and communication to historical and archaeological data.Anew generation of internationalscholarschallenge traditional views ofClassicalhistoryand offer original perspectives on the impact globalizing trends had on localized areas—insights that resonate with similar issues today.

Thissingular resourcepresents a broad, multi-national view rarely found inwesterncollected volumes, includingSerbian, Macedonian, andRussianscholarship onthe Roman Empire, as well as onRoman and Hellenistic archaeological sites in Eastern Europe. Topics includeEgyptianidentity intheHellenisticworld, culturalidentity in Roman Greece, Romanization in Slovenia, Balkan Latin, theprovincial organization of cults in Roman Britain, andSoviet studies of Roman Empire and imperialism.Serving as asynthesisofcontemporary scholarshiponthewidertopic of identity and community, this volume:

• Provides an expansive materialist approach to the topic of globalization in the Roman world
• Examines ethnicity in the Roman empire from the viewpoint of minority populations
• Offers severalviews ofmetascholarship, a growing sub-discipline that compares ancient material to modern scholarship
• Covers a range of themes, time periods, and geographic areas not included in most western publications

Community and Identity at the Edges of the Classical World isa valuable resource for academics, researchers, and graduate students examining identity and ethnicity in the ancient world, as well asforthose working in multiple fields of study, from Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman historians, to the study of ethnicity, identity, and globalizing trends in time.