Hebraic and Hellenism is the genesis of west culture.

This thesis mainly discusses James s last complete novel The Golden Bowl by using Matthew Arnold s cultural terms Hellenism and Hebraism .

As a poet of now and then,Frost is familiar with ancient Greek culture and accomplished in adopting persona and subject matter from the ancient literature.

As we know that Greek culture has its duality,which in general,is represented by the myths in terms of contrasting or complementary pairs of qualities,especially by the duality existing in the characters of the mythological figures.

The reason why the ancient Greek culture came to be so open is as follows: the marine culture caused by its supreme physical geographical environment; the commercial culture caused by its thriving trade economy; the relaxed political atmosphere provided by its highly developed democratic system of the city-state; and its overseas colonial activities over a long period of .

As an important part of the history of western culture,ancient Greek culture had a profound influence on the development of it.

The ancient Greek culture is the cradle of the western civilization.

The forming and developing course of ancient Chinese culture and ancient Greek culture has received deep affection from ecological status.

Its excavation brings a distinct breakthrough to the research of Hellenistic civilization.