Heritage and Hellenism : The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition

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Heritage and Hellenism : The Reinvention of Jewish TraditionThe interaction of Jew and Greek in antiquity intrigues the imagination. Both civilizations boasted great traditions, their roots stretching back to legendary ancestors and divine sanction. In the wake of Alexander the Great's triumphant successes, Greeks and Macedonians came as conquerors and settled as ruling classes in the lands of the eastern Mediterranean. Hellenic culture, the culture of the ascendant classes in many of the cities of the Near

Babylon and Crete

Both works have had a powerful influence on later Western literature

Books V-VI of Julius Caesar’s The Gallic War narrate Caesar’s campaigns in Britain

shaped contemporaries' perceptions of their current situation and affected future action

It focuses on Athens in the classical period

but never more so than now

she was told records of her grandmother’s youth were destroyed in the early days of communism in Albania

The Dream of Scipio (Somnium Scipionis) was excerpted in late antiquity from Cicero’s De Republica

offers to help solve the mystery

πώς φέρθηκα στον επαγγελματικό μου βίο

Phaedra is one of Seneca's most successful tragedies

This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant