The Hellenistic Age
Aspects of Hellenistic Civilization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6002340 |
|---|---|
| Authors | W S Ferguson (0000-0003-3742-802X), J B Bury, E A Barber, Edwyn Robert Bevan, Edwyn Bevan, W W Tarn |
| Year | 1924 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 124-124 |
| Publication date | 1924-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1838178 |
| OpenAlex | W2017679492 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
In Hellenistic Age and History of Civilization, J.B. Bury discusses important advances made in mathematics, astronomy, and geography; the pattern of the hellenization of Rome; and changing Greek ideas of barbarianism and cosmopolitanism. E. A. Barber's essay, Literature, deals with the characteristic styles of the period, Alexandrian poetry, and the new prose forms. Besides the scientific and learned writing it is known for, Professor Barber demonstrates, the age produced much popular satiric and moralizing poetry, realistic mime, epigrams, and parodies. As the system of the city states declined, increasing social instability fostered the rise of a number of popular philosophies. In another chapter, Edwyn Bevan outlines the similarities and differences between the Platonic, Peripatetic, Stoic, Epicurean, Sceptic, and Cynic schools and the effect of Christianity on their society. W. W. Tarn's Social Question in the Third Century examines the conditions that led to revolution in the century after Alexander. The author describes the economic disturbances leading to the polarization of classes, and assesses the phases of social revolution as exemplified in the uprisings at Sparta
Archaeology · Art · Christianity · Civilization · Epicureanism · Greeks · Literature · Poetry · Skepticism · Theology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2013 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |