Hellenistic culture : fusion and diffusion
1959, 1st edition. London : Oxford University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #392561
Physical description: 324 pages, 25 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-314) and index. Contents: Genesis and diffusion -- Exclusiveness and integration -- Alexander and the Oikoumene; the successors -- Barbarian receptivity -- Language and ethos -- Education: gentlemen, scribes, saints -- Plato the Helenizer -- Barbarian apologetics -- Exotics in the main stream -- Historiography -- Drama and diatribe -- Love, triangular and pure -- Aretalogies and martyrdoms -- Cult and mystery -- Prayer and confession -- Blessed landscapes and havens -- Art -- Roman evangelists -- An elect, with sovereignty and without -- Authority and law. Subjects: Hellenism; Ancient Greece; Civilization; Greece Ancient History; Alexander the Great to Roman epoch; Greece Civilization To 146 B.C.
Price: €45.00