Alien Wisdom: The Limits of Hellenization (1975 Momigliano), book

Alien Wisdom: The Limits of Hellenization (1975) is a book by Arnaldo Momigliano.

Editions and translations

Published in Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975. Reprinted several times in Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978-1993.

Translations

Translated into Italian in Torino: G. Einaudi, 1980; translated into French in Paris: Maspero, 1979, 1980 and Gallimard, 1991.

Table of contents

• Preface
• 1. The Greeks and their neighbours in the Hellenistic world
• 2. Polybius and Posidonius
• 3. The Celts and the Greeks
• 4. The Hellenistic discovery of Judaism
• 5. Greeks, Jews and Romans from Antiochus III to Pompey
• 6. Iranians and Greeks

External links

• Google Books (partial text)