Alien wisdom: the limits of Hellenization
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. --
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- Full title :Alien wisdom : the limits of Hellenization / Arnaldo Momigliano.
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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. --
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- Publication Date:1990.
- Edition:1st pbk. ed
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- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1990.
The Physical Object
- Description:176 pages ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0521387612, 9780521387613, 0521208769, 9780521208765
- oclc:ocm34225360
- LC Classification:DF78
- Dewey Decimal:938.08
Table of 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.
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