Studies of the ancient Greek world have typically focused on the life histories of elite males as the group that has made the most distinct mark on ancient Greek literature, art and material culture. As a result, the voices of foreigners, the physically impaired, the impoverished and the generally disenfranchised have been silent, which has substantially complicated the creation of a historical narrative of these marginalised groups.
Marginalised Populations in the Ancient Greek World: The Bioarchaeology of the Other explores literary, visual, material and biological evidence of marginality in the ancient Greek world. It provides the first comprehensive and contextual treatment of the biological evidence for marginality in the ancient Greek world, one which argues that intersectionality was the driving factor behind social marginalisation in the Late Archaic/Classical Greek world. To this end, it considers social marginalisation from the vantage point of mortuary evidence.