Hellenism in the East: Studies on Greek Intellectuals in Palestine (Historia - Einzelschriften)

While Jewish Palestine has been at the focus of scholarly interest, Greek Palestine has not yet received similar attention. This book attempts to investigate the intellectual life in that country in the Hellenistic world and in the Roman Empire. The two perspectives taken are a full prosopographical survey of Greek intellectuals in ancient Palestine and an in-depth study of the Greek intellectuals in one particular city, Ascalon. A survey of the penetration of Latin among the educated Greek-speaking inhabitants of the country concludes the book. CONTENTS 6 PREFACE 8 PART I: A PROSOPOGRAPHY OF GREEK INTELLECTUALS IN PALESTINE 12 APPENDIX A: VISITORS (IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER) 45 APPENDIX B: THE CIRCLE OF HEROD 49 APPENDIX C: JEWS AND SAMARITANS 51 APPENDIX D: INTELLECTUALS FROM PETRA 54 APPENDIX E: VERSE INSCRIPTIONS FROM PALESTINE 57 PART II: GREEK INTELLECTUALS FROM ASCALON 58 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 58 CHAPTER 2: TWO EARLY WITNESSES 62 CHAPTER 3: THE FLOURISHING OF HELLENIC CULTURE 66 CHAPTER 4: EUENUS OF ASCALON 83 CHAPTER 5: THE SECOND FLOURISHING: LATE ANTIQUITY 89 CHAPTER 6: JULIAN OF ASCALON 110 CHAPTER 7: TWO SHRINES IN ASCALON 127 APPENDIX TO PART II: MARIANUS OF ELEUTHEROPOLIS 131 PART III: LATIN LITERATURE IN PALESTINE 136 BIBLIOGRAPHY 152 INDEX 172