Eastern Hellenism : an introduction -- A Mediterranean Oikoumene -- The / struggle for power -- The fearless universe -- The Ptolemies of Egypt -- The new intelligentsia -- The Seleucid Empire -- Hellenes and Jews -- The Romans in the Near East -- The Platonic revival -- The Augustan Empire -- Life styles and life sciences -- Old gods and new -- The origins of Christianity -- Violence and growth under the Pax Romana -- Classic and Baroque -- Crisis and survival -- Christianity and the Hellenic world -- Eastern philosophies -- The triumph of Christianity -- Epilogue the end of Paganism -- Chronology : Central and Western Asia, B.C. 338 to 393 A.D., during the Greco-Roman period
