商品簡介
Cultural Contact explores adaptation, resistance and reciprocity in Axial-Age Mediterranean exchange, a discussion begun in antiquity. Real progress requires relearning the Mediterranean as a historical system. These essays illustrate the problems such study must overcome.
作者簡介
Baruch Halpern (Harvard ’74) holds the Covenant Professorship in Religion at the University of Georgia, and was formerly Chaiken Family Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, and of Ancient History, at Penn State. His publications center on ancient history, literature, language and archaeology. Kenneth S. Sacks is professor of History and Classics at Brown University. He works on the ancient Greek world (especially historiography and intellectual thought), classical reception in the United States, and American Transcendentalism.