Expert: Irulan Serena - 10/26/2006

Question
Dear Mrs. Serena,
My name is Alexandru Moraru and I am a third year student at the History Faculty at the "Babes-Bolyai" University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
I've seen some of your answers on Ask the Expert, and it came to my mind that you could answer me a question: do you know any Internet sources where one can find detailed resources regarding Hellenistic history?
My graduation project, at the end of year four, deals with the cultural and religious history of the Hellenistic Orient in generall and Ptolemaic Egypt in special. Its title would sound like : "Spiritual interferences in Hellenistic Egypt and the Levant", although it is not definitive yet.
That is why I searched the Internet but with no success in finding some interesting and detailed pages regarding hellenistic history, religion, spirituality and culture.
I found on the Internet a good page http://www.houseofptolemy.org/ but with not so complete links, and I found at Amazon.com for sale Peter Frazer's book, "Ptolemaic Alexandria", but that is all.
So, if you know interesting Internet sites and good book titles linked to hellenistic cultural and religious history, regarding Orient and Ptolemaic Egypt, I would be very grateful if you could send me an e-mail with them or let me know where you post your answer. Thank you very much.
Respectfully,
Alexandru Moraru.

Answer
Here are some links that should help you:

http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0000035f/
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/5827.html
http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/asbook08.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/hellenistic/
http://www.designedfx-webdesign.com/greece/Greece-hellenistic-history-oxford-wor...
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/2557.ctl
http://www.usns.info/links.html
http://www.amazon.ca/Hellenistic-Greek-Texts-Allen-Wikgren/dp/0226896889
http://judaism.about.com/library/1_jerusalem/bl_jewishbond_d.htm
http://www.dovebook.com/new/bookdesc.asp?BookID=41282
http://christian-book-store.christiansunite.com/96889/Hellenistic-Greek-Texts.sh...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_civilization
http://web.christianbook.com/products_osmx/pk-96889
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/b-greek/2005-November/036722.html
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-9231(194803)67%3A1%3C82%3AHGT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K
http://faculty.northseattle.edu/tfurutani/sci100/wk7cengasst.pdf
http://www.amazon.com/Hellenistic-Greek-Texts-Allen-Wikgren/dp/0226896889
http://judaism.about.com/od/daysofmourning/f/temple2.htm
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0009-837X(194810)43%3A4%3C268%3AHGT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D
http://wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/202/207552/CH05.im.pdf
http://www.catalog.ucsb.edu/97cat/l&s/relst.htm
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3803/is_199904/ai_n8843051
http://www.catalog.ucsb.edu/98cat/L&s/relst.htm
http://pages.towson.edu/astallsm/
http://www.catalog.ucsb.edu/2001cat/ls/relst.htm
http://www.holocaustchronicle.org/StaticPages/19.html
http://www.ppch.org/page.aspx?id=146775
http://www.towson.edu/users/astallsm/
http://www.catalog.ucsb.edu/98cat/L
http://www.highonadventure.com/Hoa98aug/Jeruslm/history.htm
http://www.usns.info/coin-antoninia.html
http://members.evansville.net/fbcevansville/Rt 66 Four Hundred Silent Years students.htm

Hope this helps,

Iru