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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Erich Honecker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Erich Honecker (25 August 1912–29 May 1994) was a German Communist politician who led East Germany from 1971 until 1989.
		After German re-unification, he first fled to the Soviet Union but was extradited by the new democratic Russian government to Germany, where he was imprisoned and tried for high treason and crimes committed during the Cold War (specifically the deaths of 192 Germans who tried to escape the Honecker regime).
		The record for most number of photographs of Erich Honecker in the official SED newspaper, Neues Deutschland, was 41, in the edition of 16 March 1987, on the occasion of Honecker's opening of the Leipzig Messe, as he was shown with different politicians and exhibitors.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Erich_Honecker (779 words)

	Republican Rome
		Gruen then argues that such a measure was hardly the turning point in the Republic's fate that I might like to think it was, "[because] there had been a gradual reduction of property requirements for military personnel beginning well before Marius.
		Gruen may be correct when he insists upon the comparatively low salary soldiers were paid under Marius, but salary is merely a technical distinction for professional.
		Gruen's interpretation does not necessarily have to exclude the argument that Sulla - and Marius before him - provided models and paved the way for the rise of Julius Caesar, "Dictator for Life." Gruen's interpretation focuses solely on the very limited period of Sulla's political career, which was fairly short.
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	Case Western Reserve University
		Erich Gruen's published research demonstrates a seamless transition from his early scholarship in Hellenistic and early Roman historiography to his current well-established role as a leading specialist on Jews in antiquity.
		One might not be persuaded by all the details of Gruen's effort to grapple with the difficult problem of the origins and nature of the synagogue (especially his affirmation that it was an institution sui generis; pp.
		Gruen's conclusion that there was no standardized pattern in the synagogue's operation and function in the pre-70 period is probably the most convincing explanation of this evidence.
	www.cwru.edu /artsci/rosenthal/reviews/diaspora_greeksromans.htm (1106 words)

	Faculty Research Lectures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Erich S. Gruen is Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been on the faculty for 38 years.
		Gruen’s ability to invite and engage interest in his subject has contributed to his excellence as a teacher.
		Gruen also lectures widely off campus, and, in the past four years, he has delivered 58 invited lectures in venues from Harvard to San Quentin.
	www.urel.berkeley.edu /faculty/gruen.html (357 words)

	Amazon.com: The Last Generation of the Roman Republic: Books: Erich S. Gruen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Gruen shows how all of the important political offices such as the Consulship continued to be filled by either plebeian nobles or patricians as usual and that there were no major changes or concessions made during that time.
		Gruen's argument focuses on how the consequences of enfranchising all of Italy into the Roman citizenry after the Social Wars may have overextended the traditional stability of the nobilitas' oligarchy and yet not altered their perception of the new political reality.
		Gruen also doesn't ignore the adverse effects of Rome failing to address the dangers of its professional legions whose allegiances were only to their commanders and not its political institutions.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520201531?v=glance (2690 words)

	Diaspora: Jews Amidst Greeks and Romans
		Again Gruen re-establishes his thesis by once again clearly stating “Jews of the Second Temple period did not perceive themselves as victims of the Diaspora.” Gruen points out that within Jewish literature of this period, one finds very little reflection of contempt towards their current situation.
		Gruen then goes on to address the cultural effect on the Jews by their encounters with the language, and literature of the Hellenic world.
		It may be that the situations Gruen finds humor in, like Sarah’s rudeness towards her maid in Tobit, more reflect a simple misinterpretation of Jewish cultural life in antiquity, than actual humor on the part of the original writers.
	www.historyvortex.org /Diaspora.html (1208 words)

	Harvard University Press: Diaspora
		Gruen, a specialist in the history of the Hellenistic period and author of the magisterial volume The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome, explores the complex and often ambiguous place of Jewish communities in the classical world and the ways in which Jewish literary culture grew and flourished in this diaspora.
		Gruen's greatest contribution is that he sees the events...of Jewish history and the literature produced by Hellenistic Jews against the backdrop of events of contemporary non-Jewish history and culture...I have seldom read a book on such a controversial topic that is so full of common sense--and so readable.
		Erich Gruen is a fresh, creative, and arresting voice, whose work is truly paradigm-shifting.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/GRUDIA.html?show=reviews (399 words)

	Student Life Feature Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Erich Gruen lectured on the issue of "Pagans and Jews: The Roots of Anti-Semitism," while pigeons watched from above.
		Gruen explained that hatred toward Jews was not a common goal of an entire nation, but was "local events triggered by local people."
		Gruen attributes his strong interest in early Greek and Roman history to the professors he had as a college student.
	www.collegewicca.com /newsfiles/studlifeft32798.html (575 words)

	Erich S. Gruen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Erich S. Gruen (born Vienna, Austria, May 1935) is a notable American classicist and ancient historian.
		He is the Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1966.
		Gruen's Home page at the UCB History Department web site
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Erich_Gruen (256 words)

	VQR » Diaspora In Antiquity
		Erich Gruen discerns a touch of republican mockery.
		Gruen concludes that the standard interpretations of the Esther story with its brave, beautiful, and bloodthirsty heroine need to be rethought.
		Gruen prefers to focus on the Jewish diaspora before the Second Temple was destroyed, and he finds that the Jews living peacefully in the Gentile communities
	www.vqronline.org /articles/2003/spring/evans-diaspora-antiquity (1509 words)

	Philo of Alexandria Blog: 06/06/2004 - 06/12/2004
		The thesis of Erich Gruen’s highly readable and thoughtful study Diaspora is easily, and frequently, stated: "Jews of the Second Temple period did not perceive themselves as victims of a diaspora" (135; see similar statements on 6, 53, 69, 131.
		Gruen refuses to read the momentous Jewish War backward into the centuries-long Diaspora that preceded it, instead preferring to read evidence of the pre-70 Diaspora on its own terms (7).
		The result, for Gruen, is a portrait of Hellenistic Jewish life outside of Palestine characterized by "self-assurance and comfort in the Greekspeaking lands of the Mediterranean" (212).
	philoblogger.blogspot.com /2004_06_06_philoblogger_archive.html (1016 words)

	Amazon.com: Diaspora: Jews amidst Greeks and Romans: Books: Erich S. Gruen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Gruen admits that his work is far from exhaustive, but it is certainly substantial, fascinating, and scholarly.
		Erich Gruen's book on the Diaspora offers a major new reinterpretation of the Jewish experiences from Alexander the Great to the Jewish rebellion of 66 CE.
		And when Gruen seeks to find a humorous element in Sarah's rudeness towards her maid in Tobit, he may simply be ignoring the general callousness towards servants and slaves in Hellenic times.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0674016068?v=glance (1432 words)

	The Fortnightly: Vol. 21, No. 07, Claremont McKenna College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Erich S. Gruen is the Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics at the University of California at Berkeley.
		Gruen received a B.A. with the highest honors from Columbia University, was a recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford, where he graduated with first-class honors, and his doctorate in History from Harvard University.
		Gruen has been a professor at Berkeley since 1966, where he has served as the chairman of the Graduate Program in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology.
	www.mckenna.edu /mmca/temp_fn.asp?volumeFN=21&issueFN=07&typeFN=f (4868 words)

	Event: Public lecture by Prof. Erich Gruen, University of California, Berkeley, "The Jew and the 'Other' in ...
		Erich Gruen, University of California, Berkeley, "The Jew and the 'Other' in Antiquity: Alienation or Integration?", March 2, 2005
		Erich Gruen, University of California, Berkeley, "The Jew and the 'Other' in Antiquity: Alienation or Integration?"
		Erich Gruen is a professor of classics and history at the University of California at Berkeley.
	www.lclark.edu /cgi-bin/viewevent.cgi?EVFILE=kugler1109820600.1 (150 words)

	Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition (Hellenistic Culture and Society) - GRUEN, ERICH S. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In this thoroughly researched, lucidly written work, Erich Gruen draws on a wide variety of literary and historical texts of the period to explore a central question: How did the Jews accommodate themselves to the larger cultural world of the Mediterranean while at the same time reasserting the character of their own heritage within it?
		Erich Gruen's work highlights Jewish creativity, ingenuity, and inventiveness, as the Jews engaged actively with the traditions of Hellas, adapting genres and transforming legends to articulate their own legacy in modes congenial to a Hellenistic setting.
		Drawing on a diverse array of texts composed in Greek by Jews over a broad period of time, Gruen explores works by Jewish historians, epic poets, tragic dramatists, writers of romance and novels, exegetes, philosophers, apocalyptic visionaries, and composers of fanciful fables-not to mention pseudonymous forgers and fabricators.
	www.antiqbook.com /boox/she/5.shtml (323 words)

	Oberlin College to Host the 2006 CHarles Beebe Martin Lectures
		February 20, 2006—Erich S. Gruen, professor of classics and history at the University of California, Berkeley, will present Oberlin College's annual Charles Beebe Martin Classical Lectures series at the end of this month.
		This year marks the 79th anniversary of the series, established at Oberlin in honor of Charles Beebe Martin, professor of classics and classical archeology from 1880 - 1925.
		Gruen will explore national identity and multiculturalism in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds, an important emerging area of classical scholarship that he has delineated in several significant books including Diaspora: Jews amidst Greeks and Romans.
	www.oberlin.edu /newserv/06feb/beebeLectures2006.html (359 words)

	10.14.99 - Awards
		The Austrian government awarded Erich Gruen, Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics, its prestigious Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Arts at a packed ceremony in the Faculty Club Sept. 21.
		Gruen was honored for his preeminence as a scholar of ancient Greece and Rome, including the history of Jews in the Greco-Roman world.
		Consul General Werner Brandstetter presented Gruen with a medal and a decree from the President of Austria.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/berkeleyan/1999/1013/awards.html (321 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		04/13/2006 04:04 PM Erich Gruen, one of the world's leading experts on Roman history, Hellenistic history and the Jews in the Greco-Roman world, will speak at LSU on Thursday, April 20, as part of the Chancellor's Distinguished Lectureship Series.
		Gruen, the Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics at the University of California, Berkeley, will speak at 3 p.m.
		Gruen earned his bachelor's degree from Columbia University and his doctorate from Harvard University.
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	Gruen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Gruen is a professor of classics and history at the University of California at Berkeley.
		Gruen has been a professor at Berkeley since 1966.
		A recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship, Gruen earned a second bachelor's degree from Oxford University in 1960, graduating with first class honours in Literae Humaniores (Ancient History and Philosophy).
	wupa.wustl.edu /asmbly/bio/Gruen (233 words)

	SPPD - This Weeks Finds in Planning: 2003: 03-17-03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Erich Gruen suggests that the Jewish people were surely in diaspora as of say 400 BCE, that they had no particular desire to return, that they were only intermittently persecuted and most often fit comfortably within their diaspora homelands.
		They could not know ahead of time of the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE, and that even surely influences our reading of previous history but not their experience.
		In all cases, these are people in exile, "in but not of this world." The exile is a mythic one, not the exile as described by Gruen, of Exodus and Revolution (to use Walzer's book title).
	www.usc.edu /schools/sppd/krieger/2003/031703.html (338 words)

	The Roman Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His conclusion of inevitability is less strongly supported than his elucidation of the takeover process, since at each point we see that Augustus is exercising his free choice, albeit for what he sees as the good of his country.
		In The Last Generation of the Roman Republic, Erich Gruen offered an effective opposing point of view, arguing that the traditional view of the Republic's decay is not actually supported by the objective evidence.
		The Roman Revolution has been reprinted regularly by OUP since its first appearance, most recently in 2002.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Roman_Revolution (300 words)

	Peter and Paul . Making the Series . Advisors \| PBS
		The Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics at U.C. Berkeley, Professor Gruen is an expert on Jews in the Greco-Roman World and an internationally prominent classicist.
		Among his many honors, Professor Gruen was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships (1969/70 and 1989/90), two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships (1996, 1984), the Phi Beta Kappa Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Austrian Cross of Honor for distinguished work in scholarship.
		Professor Gruen's many publications include The Last Generation of the Roman Republic, (nominated for a National Book Award) and Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition, and, most recently, Diaspora: Jews Amidst Greeks and Romans.
	www.pbs.org /empires/peterandpaul/making/advisors (739 words)

	Abstracts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Indeed, the use of the word meretrix to describe a Roman woman of elite standing is unprecedented in Latin literature (even Catullus at his worst never calls Lesbia a meretrix).
		Erich Gruen (1968; 1974, 260-357) has shown that by the late Republic political struggles among the elites had moved into the law courts to be fought out in charges and counter charges of criminal behavior.
		In this paper I argue that Cicero in his defense of Caelius was building on his prosecution of Verres 14 years before to turn the law courts into an arena for critiquing and shaping social behavior as part of his more general efforts to reform Roman civil society in order to prevent its collapse.
	classics.lss.wisc.edu /prostitution/mccoy.html (891 words)

	Heritage and Hellenism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		"Erich Gruen, distinguished classicist, offers a superb study of the interaction between Jews and Greeks in the Hellenistic period.
		Drawing on a diverse array of texts composed in Greek by Jews over a broad period of time, Gruen explores works by Jewish historians, epic poets, tragic dramatists, writers of romance and novels, exegetes, philosophers, apocalyptic visionaries, and composers of fanciful fables--not to mention pseudonymous forgers and fabricators.
		He is the author of The Last Generation of the Roman Republic (California, 1974), The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome (California, 1984), Studies in Greek Culture and Roman Policy (1990), Culture and National Identity in Republican Rome (1992), and Diaspora: Jews amidst the Greeks and Romans (forthcoming).
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/8049.html (540 words)

	BiblioAncRome
		Gruen, Erich S. The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome.
		Gruen, Erich S. Culture and National Identity in Republican Rome.
		Gruen, Erich S. Studies in Greek Culture and Roman Policy.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /history/king/BiblioAncRome.htm (2495 words)

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