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Document Details : Title: Herodes Philorhomaios Author(s): GEIGER, J. Journal: Ancient Society Volume: 28 Date: 1997 Pages: 75-88 DOI: 10.2143/AS.28.0.630070 Abstract : Philhellenism, a term coined in Antiquity and safely entrenched in modern scholarship, is two-pronged, and often employed in both a political and a cultural sense, Friend of the Greeks and Friend of Things Greek. It is well-known that Hasmonaean Judaea underwent in some respects a cultural revolution, proceeding from its birth in a crisis of political and ideological confrontation with Hellenism to a maturity that willingly absorbed all those of its manifestations that did not — and, in the view of some staunch interpreters of the Law also some that did — evidently contradict the tenets and commandments of Judaism. Needless to say Herod himself, perhaps personally less committed to these tenets and commandments than some of his predecessors, was a conspicuous champion of Hellenism, both in his own realm and in a considerable number of Greek cities outside it. |
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