In the ancient world as well at the present time, marriages among people from different ethnic groups, religion, language and culture can represent a path to integration. Within the family, individuals deal with ethnic and social identification issues establishing, mainly through the education of children, paths to new identities and self awareness. During the two day meeting, held in Verona in December 1st ad 2nd 2011, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, linguistics and sociology scholars have dealt with the topic of mixed marriages from different disciplinary perspectives ("synchronic" sessions) and in relation with various historical periods (diachronic sessions)”