Alien Wisdom
The Limits of Hellenization

Arnaldo Momigliano (Author)

9780521387613, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 23 February 1990

188 pages
21.6 x 13.6 x 1.8 cm, 0.275 kg

'Diverse interests and enormous erudition have continued to be a mark of Professor Momigliano's large output. He has ranged up and down the centuries of the ancient world, classical and near eastern, deploying a by now legendary mastery of bibliographical techniques and a shrewdness of judgement which together have earned his universal respect as one of the most eminent of ancient historians.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

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.

Preface
1. The Greeks and their neighbours in the Hellenistic world
2. Polybius and Posidonius
3. The Celts and the Greeks
4. The Hellenistic discovery of Judaism
5. Greeks, Jews and Romans from Antiochus III to Pompey
6. Iranians and Greeks
Select bibliography
Index of names.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX], General & world history [HBG]