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Building on the growing study of the Mediterranean as a whole, this study explores the ways in which identities were constructed and negotiated across the Mediterranean, focusing not only on ethnic identity, but also on civic, linguistic and religious identities and on social status. Demetriou analyses literary, epigraphic and archaeological sources from five geographically diverse Greek emporia (Emporion, Gravisca, Naukratis, Pistiros and Peiraieus), arguing that the common cultural world of the ancient Mediterranean facilitated the mediation of identity as something fluid and dynamic, considerably more complex than narrow ethnic definitions might allow.