Jews and Greeks in ancient Cyrene

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To my Parents, worked for the brotherhood of man, and to Courtney Edward Stevens, my teacher.

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Ἀλλὰ ἐπιστήσει τὲ κακῶν αἰῶνι τρόπαια.

The origin of this book can be traced to my somewhat drastic translation from the GHQ Press, Cairo, in the year 1943, to an undefined posting which turned out to be the care of the Antiquities of Cyrenaica for the British Military Administration of that territory.

The task was not an easy one, and some of its problems had to be faced alone and unassisted, while the rank of sergeant that went with it was not always commensurate with what was demanded of me. I also had to tackle the job with a minimum of literature and experience of Greek antiquities. Not all the archaeologists who devoted themselves to the territory after my release seem to have appreciated the difficlut conditions in which I had to work. But it was an invaluable training in epigraphy, in field archaeology, in the study and conservation of excavated urban sites and in the surveying of their rural background. Above all, by virtually living for eighteen months in an ancient Greek city I was able greatly to enlarge my understanding of the hellenic religion.

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