Speakers: Edith Hall, Tessa Rajak

Experts on the Classical world, Professor Edith Hall and Professor Tessa Rajak, discuss the relationship between the Greeks, the Jews and other civilisations in the Classical era. How did the Greeks regard the Jews, and what did the Jews think about the Greeks? Was there a cross-fertilisation of ideas and social mores? And why, may it be whispered, were the Greeks so much more successful in transmitting their ideas and culture to other civilisations than the Jews?