Synopses & Reviews
In this classic study of cultural confrontation Professor Momigliano examines the Greeks' attitude toward the contemporary civilizations of the Romans, Celts, Jews, and Persians. Analyzing cultural and intellectual interaction from the fourth through the first centuries B.C., Momigliano argues that in the Hellenistic period the Greeks, Romans, and Jews enjoyed an exclusive special relationship that guaranteed their lasting dominance of Western civilization.
Review
"Culture shock at such a period on such a scale is a great theme, to which Professor Momigliano has applied all his enormous erudition, acuteness and powers of synthesis." Times Literary Supplement
Synopsis
This study of cultural confrontation looks at the attitude of the Greeks to four different civilizations - the Roman, Celtic, Jewish and Persian - and analyses their cultural and intellectual interactions in the last four centuries B.C. It argues that the Greeks, Romans and Jews formed an exclusive relationship, effectively establishing, what was until recently, the normal horizon of Western civilisation.
Synopsis
Analysis of their cultural and intellectual interaction, from the fourth through the first centuries B.C., reveals that the Greeks, Romans and Jews enjoyed an exclusive relationship ensuring their dominance of Western civilization.
Table of Contents
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.