In this classic study of cultural confrontation Professor Arnaldo Momigliano looks at the attitude of the Greeks to four different civilizations - the Roman, Celtic, Jewish and Persian - and analyses their cultural and intellectual interactions from the fourth to the first centuries BC. He argues that in the Hellenistic period the Greeks, Romans and Jews formed a special exclusive relationship and effectively established what until recent times was the normal horizon of Western civilization.

Arnaldo Momigliano is the greatest contemporary scholar of the history and historiography of classical civilization. M.I. Finley has written in the New Statesman that "there is no one alive today who knows the subject as he does."

On Pagans, Jews, and Christians is an important addition to his masterly work, bringing together nineteen essays written in the past five years from sources such as The New York Review of Books, The American Scholar, and the Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. It is written with literate clarity and elegance, humane wisdom, and breadth of intellect....

Band 1 der dreibandigen "Ausgewahlten Schriften" gibt in 15 Aufsatzen einen reprasentativen Querschnitt durch Momiglianos Arbeiten zur antiken Historiographie, zu den Anfangen Roms, zur Spatantike und zu den Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Politik- und Ideengeschichte.

Der dritte Band der Auswahl aus Momiglianos "Contributi" vereinigt 22 Aufsatze zur modernen Historiographie der antiken Welt aus einem Zeitraum von funfeinhalb Jahrzehnten. Zwei Drittel der ausgewahlten Texte wurden nach 1970 verfasst und spiegeln vor allem die Interessen und Problemstellungen der letzten Jahre des groen Historikers wider.