Creating Ethnicities and Identities in the Roman World. This item is unavailable.Creating Ethnicities and Identities in the Roman World

The expansion of Rome entailed encounters with a wide range of peoples, many of which had well-established pre-conquest ethnic identities which can be compared with Roman perceptions of them. In other cases, people have been perceived almost entirely through a Roman lens. The formation of such identities, and the shaping of these identities by Rome, was a vital part of the process of Roman imperialism. This volume explores how these practices of ethnic categorisation formed part of Roman strategies of control, and how people living in particular places internalised them and developed their own senses of belonging to an ethnic community.