The harvest of Hellenism; a history of the Near East from Alexander the Great to the triumph of Christianity /
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Language: English
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New York :
Simon and Schuster,
[1971, ©1970].
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Call Number: DS57 .P48 1971
Table of Contents:
- •Eastern Hellenism : an introduction •A •Mediterranean Oikoumene •The / •struggle for power •The •fearless universe •The •Ptolemies of Egypt •The •new intelligentsia •The •Seleucid Empire •Hellenes and Jews •The •Romans in the Near East •The •Platonic revival •The •Augustan Empire •Life styles and life sciences •Old gods and new •The •origins of Christianity •Violence and growth under the Pax Romana •Classic and Baroque •Crisis and survival •Christianity and the Hellenic world •Eastern philosophies •The •triumph of Christianity •Epilogue •the end of Paganism •Chronology : Central and Western Asia, B.C. 338 to 393 A.D., during the Greco-Roman period.