Alien wisdom the limits of Hellenization Arnaldo Momigliano

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Momigliano, Arnaldo

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C.

Greece.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press 1975

Summary:

In this classic study of cultural confrontation Professor Arnaldo Momigliano looks at the attitude of the Greeks to four different civilizations - the Roman, Celtic, Jewish and Persian - and analyses their cultural and intellectual interactions from the fourth to the first centuries BC. He argues that in the Hellenistic period the Greeks, Romans and Jews formed a special exclusive relationship and effectively established what until recent times was the normal horizon of Western civilization

Contents:

The Greeks and their neighbours in the Hellenistic world

Polybius and Posidonius

The Celts and the Greeks

The Hellenistic discovery of Judaism

Greeks, Jews, and Romans from Antiochus III to Pompey

Iranians and Greeks

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-169) and index

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version Momigliano, Arnaldo. Alien wisdom

ISBN:

0521387612

9780521387613

9780511583773

051158377X

OCLC:

55059406

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