Rome, the Greek world, and the East . Volume 3 The Greek world, the Jews, and the East [[electronic resource] /] / Fergus Millar ; edited by Hannah M. Cotton and Guy M. Rogers

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451689403321
• Autore: Millar Fergus
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2006
• ISBN: 1-4696-0321-7; 0-8078-7665-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (549 p.)
• Collana: Studies in the history of Greece and Rome
• Disciplina: 938
• Soggetti: Electronic books.; Greece Civilization; Rome Civilization
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Introduction; Abbreviations; Part I. The Hellenistic World and Rome; 1. The Problem of Hellenistic Syria; 2. The Phoenician Cities: A Case-Study of Hellenisation; 3. Hellenistic History in a Near Eastern Perspective:The Book of Daniel; 4. The Background to the Maccabean Revolution: Reflections on Martin Hengel's ''Judaism and Hellenism''; 5. Polybius between Greece and Rome; 6. The Greek City in the Roman Period; Part II. Rome and the East; 7. Reflections on the Trials of Jesus; 8. The Roman Coloniae of the Near East: A Study of Cultural Relations; 9. Latin in the Epigraphy of the Roman Near East10. Paul of Samosata, Zenobia, and Aurelian: The Church, Local Culture,and Political Allegiance in Third-Century Syria; 11. Caravan Cities: The Roman Near East and Long-DistanceTrade by Land; 12. Looking East from the Classical World: Colonialism, Culture, and Trade from Alexander the Great to Shapur I; Part III. Jews and Others; 13. Porphyry: Ethnicity, Language, and Alien Wisdom; 14. Hagar,
• Sommario/riassunto: Presents essays that contribute to our understanding of the impact of Rome on the peoples, cultures, and religions of the eastern Mediterranean, and the extent to which Graeco-Roman culture acted as ; a vehicle for the self-expression of indigenous cultures. This book offers English translations of passages in Greek, Latin, and Semitic languages.