One of the most daring and inventive playwrights of her generation, Lillian Hellman's own life was the stuff of drama. As Carl Rollyson has written, "The key to Lillian Hellman's character, to what made her a legend in her own...

The ideas associated with the ancient Greeks from the 4th Century BCE. Greek ideas spread through the Middle East after the conquests of Alexander the Great. Although the *sages did their best to counteract Hellenism, its influence is to be found in...

Hellman was a critically and popularly acclaimed playwright. Her work was occasionally political and often controversial, and the events of her personal life garnered as much publicity as her writing. She is best known for her plays The...

HELLENISTIC RELIGIONS. Whereas religion is never a mere reflex of political, economic, and social conditions, there are periods in history when these factors exert a palpably strong influence on religious thinking. The Hellenistic age was certainly...

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Mikalson, Jon D. Religion in Hellenistic Athens Berkeley: University of California Press 364 pp., $48.00, ISBN 0-520-21023-9 Publication Date: June 1998 Someone commented that reading Hellenistic history is like reading a New York City telephone book. Certainly names sprout up like toadstools...

Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Age. By John J. Collins, OTL. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1997, xii + 275, pp., $35.00. In this volume Collins (University of Chicago Divinity School) deals primarily with Sirach (Ben Sira) and the Wisdom of Solomon. The discussion...

Describes Alexander the Great's impact in the hellenistic period and descripes the political and social life during that period. Explores the central characteristics of the Hellenistic period.