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Meanings of hellenistic in English

Relating to or characteristic of the classical Greek civilization.

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One other great Hellenistic center existed in the island city of Rhodes.
Early European History
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The Hellenistic Age was remarkable for the rapid advance of scientific knowledge.
Early European History
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Professor of Semitic Languages and Literatures and Hellenistic Greek, University of Michigan
Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs
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The Hellenistic Age was characterized by a general increase in wealth.
Early European History
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Better that my people adopt Hellenistic culture and learn to comingle.
Daughters of the Nile
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The Moabite seer talks like a Hellenistic apologist of the second century B.C.E.
Josephus
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The Romans had Kultur, and the Hellenistic world wore their yoke.
The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, ...
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It is forgotten how completely, in Hellenistic times, religion and philosophy were fused.
The Legacy of Greece / Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J....
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Where the way was thus paved, the Hellenistic irreligious spirit found free course.
The History of Rome, Book III / From the Union of Italy to the S...
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Yet the Hellenistic-Jewish literature is colored throughout by an apologetic purpose.
Josephus
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It's springtime and you're in the heart of the Hellenistic world.
Song of the Nile
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Hellenistic mosaic: © Bibliotheca Alexandria Antiquities Museum, photo by Mohamed Nafea
Cleopatra: a life
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This fashion is a sign of late Hellenistic or Graeco-Roman date.
How to Observe in Archaeology / Suggestions for Travellers in th...
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Besides real portraits, imaginary portraits of great excellence were produced in the Hellenistic period.
A History of Greek Art / With an Introductory Chapter on Art in ...
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In 1891 he was transferred to the chair of Hellenistic Greek, Payne Theological Seminary.
Twentieth Century Negro Literature / Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought...
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Macedonian, drill and tactics as practised by the Hellenistic successors of Alexander the Great.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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