Alien Wisdom: The Limits of Hellenization

By Arnaldo Momigliano

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521387612
• ISBN13: 9780521387613
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"