Explores the creation of identities through cross-cultural interactions in multiethnic commercial settlements in the Archaic and Classical Mediterranean.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that Òall history becomes subjective,Ó that, in fact, Òproperly there is no history, only biography.Ó Today, EmersonÕs observ

"Private associations abounded in the ancient Greek world and beyond, and this volume provides the first large-scale study of the strategies of governance which

In April, 2008, an international colloquium was held at the University of Heidelberg—the fourth convocation of a group of scholars (with some rotating members

A revisionist exploration of identities and interactions in the 'Punic World' of the western Mediterranean.