In this book, prominent historians apply Mediterranean paradigms to Classical Mediterranean Antiquty (Greece and Rome), allowing for a new approach to the ancient world and enhancing antiquity's relevance to the understanding of other historical periods as well as our contemporary world.
This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal Mediterranean Historical Review.
1. Introduction
Irad Malkin2. On the Boundless Sea of Unlikeness? On Defining the Mediterranean
Nicholas Purcell3. Mediterraneanization
Ian Morris4. Networks and the Emergence of Greek Identity
Irad Malkin5. Cultures, Landscapes, and Identities in the Mediterranean World
Lin Foxhall6. A Peculiar Island: Maghrib and Mediterranean
Brent D. Shaw7. A Sea of Faith?
Greg Woolf Irad Malkinis 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 and the editor of several books on issues of Mediterranean history and ancient ethnicity.