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Alien wisdom : the limits of Hellenization

In this study of cultural confrontation the author looks at the attitude of the Greeks to four different civilizations - the Roman, Celtic, Jewish and Persian - and analyzes their cultural and intellectual interactions from the fourth to the first centuries BC.
Print Book, English, 1975
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1975
174 pages ; 23 cm
9780521208765, 9780521387613, 0521208769, 0521387612
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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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