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Arnaldo Momigliano (Author)

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Publication Date: January 30, 1976 | ISBN-10: 0521208769 | ISBN-13: 978-0521208765

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.

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"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

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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.

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Hardcover: 181 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (January 30, 1976)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521208769
ISBN-13: 978-0521208765
Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,330,013 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Essays on Religion and the Ancient World: 2 Volumes by Arthur Darby Nock on page 146, page 150, and Back Matter
Bellum Gallicum on page 68, and page 71
De bello Gallico. Ausgew�hlte Texte. (Lernmaterialien) by Gaius Julius Caesar on page 68, and page 71
The Greeks in Bactria and India by W. W. Tarn on page 140, and Back Matter
Druids: A Study in Keltic Prehistory by T. D. Kendrick in Back Matter

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Creating East and West: Renaissance Humanists and the Ottoman Turks by Nancy Bisaha in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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