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Diaspora juive --- Jewish diaspora --- Joodse diaspora --- Jewish diaspora. --- Jews --- Jewish literature --- Juifs --- Littérature juive --- History --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- Greece --- Rome --- Grèce --- Ethnic relations --- Relations interethniques --- Judaism --- History and criticism --- -Jews --- -Judaism --- Religions --- Semites --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Judaica --- Hebrew literature --- Diaspora, Jewish --- Galuth --- Human geography --- -History --- -Religion --- Religion --- Literature --- Diaspora --- Migrations --- -History and criticism --- -Jewish diaspora. --- -Religions --- -Diaspora, Jewish --- -Diaspora --- Littérature juive --- Grèce --- Hellenistic Judaism --- Judaism, Hellenistic --- 586 B.C.-70 A.D. --- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D. --- Ethnic relations. --- Jews - History - 586 B.C.-70 A.D. --- Judaism - History - Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D. --- Jewish literature - History and criticism. --- Judaism - History - Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D --- Jewish literature - History and criticism

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City-states --- Rome --- History --- Foreign relations --- Histoire --- Relations extérieures --- Foreign relations. --- Relations extérieures

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Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other--Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Gauls, and other foreigners--frequently through hostile stereotypes, distortions, and caricature. In this provocative book, Erich Gruen demonstrates how the ancients found connections rather than contrasts, how they expressed admiration for the achievements and principles of other societies, and how they discerned--and even invented--kinship relations and shared roots with diverse peoples. Gruen shows how the ancients incorporated the traditions of foreign nations, and imagined blood ties and associations with distant cultures through myth, legend, and fictive histories. He looks at a host of creative tales, including those describing the founding of Thebes by the Phoenician Cadmus, Rome's embrace of Trojan and Arcadian origins, and Abraham as ancestor to the Spartans. Gruen gives in-depth readings of major texts by Aeschylus, Herodotus, Xenophon, Plutarch, Julius Caesar, Tacitus, and others, in addition to portions of the Hebrew Bible, revealing how they offer richly nuanced portraits of the alien that go well beyond stereotypes and caricature. Providing extraordinary insight into the ancient world, this controversial book explores how ancient attitudes toward the Other often expressed mutuality and connection, and not simply contrast and alienation.

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The interaction of Jew and Greek in antiquity intrigues the imagination. Both civilizations boasted great traditions, their roots stretching back to legendary ancestors and divine sanction. In the wake of Alexander the Great's triumphant successes, Greeks and Macedonians came as conquerors and settled as ruling classes in the lands of the eastern Mediterranean. Hellenic culture, the culture of the ascendant classes in many of the cities of the Near East, held widespread attraction and appeal. Jews were certainly not immune. In this thoroughly researched, lucidly written work, Erich Gruen draws on a wide variety of literary and historical texts of the period to explore a central question: How did the Jews accommodate themselves to the larger cultural world of the Mediterranean while at the same time reasserting the character of their own heritage within it? Erich Gruen's work highlights Jewish creativity, ingenuity, and inventiveness, as the Jews engaged actively with the traditions of Hellas, adapting genres and transforming legends to articulate their own legacy in modes congenial to a Hellenistic setting. Drawing on a diverse array of texts composed in Greek by Jews over a broad period of time, Gruen explores works by Jewish historians, epic poets, tragic dramatists, writers of romance and novels, exegetes, philosophers, apocalyptic visionaries, and composers of fanciful fables—not to mention pseudonymous forgers and fabricators. In these works, Jewish writers reinvented their own past, offering us the best insights into Jewish self-perception in that era.

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Rome --- Politics and government