"A sweeping survey of adverse attitudes by Greeks and Romans toward foreigners both east and west. The immense erudition covers the whole of the Mediterranean and beyond, a remarkable work of scholarship. The argument that 'proto-racism' had its origins in antiquity is somewhat one-sided and debatable, but it sets the debate on a wholly new footing."

Recommended by Erich S. Gruen, Professor of History and Classics and author of Rethinking the Other in Antiquity.