ABSTRACT
Hellenistic Athens remained the locale of numerous competing schools of philosophy and rhetoric which continued to pursue learning by the traditional verbal techniques. In the Hellenistic era that library had a devious career, eventually reappearing in Athens about 100 b.c., from whence copies of various books in the collection found their way throughout the Mediterranean, becoming known particularly in Alexandria and Rome. The Greek literary heritage spread to Alexandria and the hundreds of cities of the Hellenistic Orient. The cultural developments of the Hellenistic era were reflected in the provisions for schooling, and in that period the definitive form of Greek education was achieved. The history of human experience up to Hellenistic times records a continued effort to find order and system in the vast continuum of experience and phenomena surrounding man. Throughout the Hellenistic East racial interpenetration, initiated by Alexander the Great, continued to prove attractive to many indigenes, including the Jews.
