Rebecca Futo Kennedy is Associate Professor of Classics at Denison University. Molly Jones-Lewis is Lecturer in Ancient Studies at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
"""Unique not only for its broad geographical and temporal scope, the handbook is also notable for transcending the common understanding of the ""barbarian"" as ""the Other."" It advocates movement away from the dichotomous classification of ""us vs. them"" (or Greek/Roman vs. barbarian), and likewise discourages the application of modern concepts of race and ethnicity to historical cultures that operated within different contextual frameworks. As such, the essays in this book represent the new directions of current scholarship concerning issues of identity and ethnicity in the ancient and medieval worlds. Thus, this collection of engaging and provocative scholarship challenges readers to shed generalizations and over simplifications and to focus instead on the subtle differences in the ways in which ethnic identities were conceived in past."" - Carrie L. Sulosky Weaver, University of Pittsburgh, in The Classical Journal, published by The Classical Association of the Middle West and South, USA"