The harvest of Hellenism
Subtitle: a history of the Near East from Alexander the Great to the triumph of Christianity
By: [by] F.E. Peters
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 800
Subjects: History
Notes: Bibliography: p. 737-755; index p. 757-800.
Table of contents: title: Eastern Hellenism: an introduction; title: A Mediterranean Oikoumene; title: The struggle for power; title: The fearless universe; title: The Ptolemies of Egypt; title: The new intelligentsia; title: The Seleucid Empire; title: Hellenese and Jews; title: The Romans in the Near East; title: The Platonic revival; title: The Augustan Empire; title: Life styles and life sciences; title: Old gods and new; title: The origins of Christianity; title: Violence and growth under Pax Romana; title: Classic and baroque; title: Risis and survival; title: Christianity and the Hellenic world; title: Eastern philosophies; title: The triumph of Christianity; title: Epilogue: The end of paganism.