Use "hellenistic" in a sentence

1. Immorality was rife in the Hellenistic world.

2. Depicted here is an ancient Hellenistic alabaster flask from Egypt.

3. In Hellenistic cities, public Basilicas appeared in the 2nd century BC.

4. Merely to breathe in the Hellenistic period involved absorption of Greek culture!”

5. A very popular size, at least in the Hellenistic age, was 130 tons.

6. A few hundred years after Democritus, the Hellenistic era revived the Atomist philosophy

7. The use of Official Aramaic continued during the Hellenistic period (323-30 B.C.E.).

8. The Athens committee had split right down the middle.half Apollonistic, half Hellenistic

9. Attalids: name of the Hellenistic dynasty that ruled Pergamon between 283 and 129 BCE

10. In the Hellenistic period the Achaean League used a Koina with a Doric base

11. The waters emanated from Greece, and Judaism emerged from them with a Hellenistic garment.

12. Anacreontics, poems in the style of Anacreon, were written from Hellenistic to late Byzantine

13. The decorations on the walls of the Adytum bear the characteristics of the Early Hellenistic period.

14. From Hellenistic Greek ἄχρονος without time (from ancient Greek ἀ- + χρόνος time) + -ism, originally punningly after anAchronism.

15. 14 Seen in comparison with the preceding axial age,[www.Sentencedict.com] the Hellenistic age is tame and conservative.

16. The primary accounts, coming from Hellenistic writers, also heavily influenced the places included in the wonders list.

17. Antiochus IV Epiphanes was a king from the Seleucid dynasty, which ruled the Hellenistic Syrian Empire

18. Definition of Attalid : a member of a Hellenistic dynasty that ruled Pergamum from about 283 to 133 b.c.

19. The Achaean League was a Hellenistic-era confederation of city states in Achaea, founded in 280/281 BC

20. This is a comprehensive political and cultural history of the Hellenistic Attalid dynasty established in 282 B.C

21. In this way, we point out the transition of Platonism theological concept during the Hellenistic and early Christian period.

22. Video summary:The Siege of Bactra was a siege of the Hellenistic period that lasted from 208 to 206 BC

23. Baalbek This Phoenician city, where a triad of deities was worshipped, was known as Heliopolis during the Hellenistic period

24. 15 The Essenes were not only greatly inclined to apocalyptic views and legalism, but they were frantically anti-Hellenistic.

25. These documents attest to what was a widespread practice from the Sumerian period down to the late Hellenistic period in Egypt.

26. Discussions, Aggadot are far more likely to include Greek loan words, and are more likely to evidence other forms of hellenistic influence14)

27. - Herods' love of Hellenistic culture and his desire to introduce it to the Jewish nation is illustrated clearly by the theater at Caesarea

28. Derived from the work of Hellenistic craftsmen working in Asia Minor, the Arabesque originally included birds in a highly naturalistic setting

29. Abstract: In this paper, I explore the literary aesthetics of Attalid Pergamon, one of the Ptolemies’ fiercest cultural rivals in the Hellenistic period.

30. It explains that the creation of cities in Bactria is represented by Ai Khanum for the Hellenistic period and Termez for the Great Kushans

31. Attalid a member of a Hellenistic dynasty named after Attalus I (reigned 241–197 bc), which flourished in the 3rd and 2nd centuries bc

32. : In the third century BC, the Attalid dynasts of Pergamon in north-western Asia Minor were relatively minor players in Hellenistic great-power politics

33. In the third century BC, the Attalid dynasts of Pergamon in north-western Asia Minor were relatively minor players in Hellenistic great-power politics

34. From post-classical Latin Acronyctus or its etymon Hellenistic Greek ἀκρόνυκτος rising at sunset, in opposition (from ancient Greek ἀκρο- + νυκτ-, νύξ see nycti-) + -ous.

35. English: The Attalid dynasty was a Hellenistic dynasty that ruled the city of Pergamon after the death of Lysimachus, a general of Alexander the Great

36. The greatest number of inscription fragments was found in the area of the so-called Esplanade, identified as the older, Hellenistic agora of the city.

37. The first Clerestory appeared in the temples of ancient Egypt, then were used in the Hellenistic culture, from where it were taken by the ancient Romans

38. Maresha was first excavated in 1898-1900 by Bliss and Macalister, who uncovered a planned and fortified Hellenistic city encircled by a town wall with towers.

39. Some of the Confiscated Greek Hellenistic and early Islamic coins that were seized in 2017 and transferred recently to the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections

40. (Matthew 14:6-10) The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1979 edition) provides this insight: “The pre-Hellenistic Greeks celebrated the birthdays of gods and prominent men.

41. The Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies was established as a joint collaboration between the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the Onassis Foundation, the Vardinoyannis Foundation, and the Alexandria University

42. Achaean League - The Achaean League (Greek: Κοινὸν τῶν Ἀχαιῶν, Koinon ton Akhaion 'League of Achaeans') was a Hellenistic-era confederation of Greek city states on the northern

43. The treatise is not a compendium of all that the Hellenistic mathematicians knew at the time about geometry; Euclid himself wrote eight more advanced books on geometry.

44. From post-classical Latin Acronyctus or its etymon Hellenistic Greek ἀκρόνυκτος rising at sunset, in opposition (from ancient Greek ἀκρο- + νυκτ-, νύξ see nycti-) + -ous.

45. The Achaean League or the League of Achaeans was a union of Greek city-states from the Central Peloponnese and Northern part of Greece during the Hellenistic era

46. The Sasanians saw themselves as successors of the Achaemenids, after the Hellenistic and Parthian interlude, and believed that it was their destiny to restore the greatness of Persia.

47. Aristarchian symbols are editorial marks developed during the Hellenistic period and the early Roman empire for annotating then-ancient Greek texts – mainly the works of Homer

48. The fountain on a side wall contains a grotto and a figure which follows a Hellenistic prototype most familiar in the Sleeping Ariadne of the Vatican.

49. The cult-site wasestablished in the fourth century BCE and renovated twice in the Hellenistic period - by Philetairos (283-263 BCE), founder of the Attalid dynasty, and by Queen

50. Alexander the Great, king of Macedonia (336–323 BCE), who overthrew the Persian empire, carried Macedonian arms to India, and laid the foundations for the Hellenistic world of territorial kingdoms

51. Atticism /ˈætɪˌsɪzəm/ n the idiom or character of the Attic dialect of Ancient Greek, esp in the Hellenistic period an elegant, simple, and clear expression WordReference Random House Unabridged …

52. Pergamum existed at least from the 5th century bce, but it became important only in the Hellenistic Age (323–30 bce), when it served as the residence of the Attalid dynasty.

53. The earliest coins of Mithridates I show him wearing the soft cap, yet coins from the latter part of his reign show him for the first time wearing the royal Hellenistic diadem.

54. There was only one regiment or unit that held the title of Companions in the entire Hellenistic world though; the Antigonids and Ptolemies had different names for their elite cavalry regiments.

55. The Hellenistic astronomer Ptolemy, in Almagest IV 2, discusses the duration and ratios of several periods related to the Moon, as known to "ancient astronomers" and "the Chaldeans" and improved by Hipparchus.

56. Alongside Chinese artifacts, pieces from the steppes, and Iranian and Hellenistic Central Asian regions have been found: a Persian silver box found in the tomb is the earliest imported product found to date in China.

57. Relating to or living in the underworld (= the place in ancient stories where the spirits of the dead go): In older Greek and Hellenistic cults, the snake was worshiped as a symbol of the Chthonic deity.

58. The first study of the Attalid kingdom in English for over a generation Includes contributions by world specialists on Hellenistic history and coinage Illustrated throughout with comprehensive images of major coinages from the second century BC

59. Despite the apostle Paul’s clear warning against “the empty speeches that violate what is holy” and “the contradictions of the falsely called ‘knowledge,’” such teachers integrated in their teachings philosophical elements from the surrounding Hellenistic culture.

60. The Attalid dynasty was a Hellenistic dynasty that ruled the city of Pergamon after the death of Lysimachus, a general of Alexander the Great.The Attalid kingdom was the rump state left after the collapse of the Lysimachian Empire

61. Apollonius of Rhodes (Apollonius Rhodius) was an innovative and influential Hellenistic Greek epic poet, best known as the author of the epic poem “The Argonautica”, the popular myth of Jason and the Argonauts’quest for the Golden Fleece

62. Says one source: “So great was the desire to preserve intact the sacred name of God that Hellenistic Jews, when translating the Hebrew Bible into Greek, copied the actual letters of the Tetragrammaton in the midst of the Greek text.”

63. Adjective Relating to the Hellenistic dynasty named after Attalus I (reigned 241–197 BC), which flourished in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC. ‘It developed into a major power during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC under the Attalid dynasty.’

64. The sponsors of Greek temples usually belonged to one of two groups: on the one hand public sponsors, including the bodies and institutions that administrated important sanctuaries; on the other hand influential and affluent private sponsors, especially Hellenistic kings.

65. These Astrologies are: Vedic Astrology, the astrology of India, Western Astrology, Hellenistic Astrology, the astrology of classical Greece, and British Horary Astrology: The astrology which casts charts of questions and answers them using techniques of William Lilly, an astrologer from 17th century England.

66. Emma Stafford notes that the story of the Cretan Bull does not appear before the Hellenistic period and suggests the connection between Crete and Athens is the result of the development of the myth of the Theseus cycle in late sixth century Athens

67. Located at an altitude of approximately 1,170 meters in the Beqaa valley, Baalbek is known to have been settled from at least 7,000 BC, with almost continual settlement of the Tell under the Temple of Jupiter, which was a temple since the pre-Hellenistic era.

68. Emma Stafford notes that the story of the Cretan Bull does not appear before the Hellenistic period and suggests the connection between Crete and Athens is the result of the development of the myth of the Theseus cycle in late sixth century Athens

69. As nouns the difference between Conurbation and metropolis is that Conurbation is a continuous aggregation of built-up urban communities created as a result of urban sprawl while metropolis is (history) the mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony, especially in the ancient greek/hellenistic world.

70. These artefacts which include Hellenistic monuments and Buddhist statues have survived for thousands of years, but the Taliban has already begun or will begin shortly to turn them into heaps of stones in an anachronistic display of hatred and contempt for the treasures of human artistic creation.

71. 13 The sect of the Essenes shared with the Hellenistic Puritans who followed Pythagoras in believing “not only the dualistic doctrine of body and soul, but the striving for bodily purity, the practice of ablutions, the rejection of blood offerings, the encouragement of celibacy [becoming in effect eunuchs].”

72. Aristarchian symbols are editorial marks developed during the Hellenistic period and the early Roman empire for annotating then-ancient Greek texts – mainly the works of Homer.They were used to highlight missing text, text which was discrepant between sources, and text which appeared in the wrong place.

73. Abramelin, whose system is based mostly on Hellenistic theurgy of the Iamblichan sort, but with Jewish increments from the Cabala, explains the qualifications needed to become a magician, purifications, and Asceticisms to be practiced month by month, studies and activities permitted during this period, selection of place and time for working

74. Augurates a new age centered in Messiah and his eschatological program, and that the Spirit empowers believers to engage in a "prophetic" and universal ministry of proclaiming the gospel.6 This view directly counters the view championed by Bultmann which attributes J ohannine terminology to Hellenistic influence.7 While

75. The term Canaanite designates the culture of the region often known as the Levant, roughly comprising the modern entities of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine, beginning with the earliest extensive written records in the third millennium bce and ending with the start of the Hellenistic period in the

76. The Attalid dynasty (/ ˈ æ t əl ᵻ d /; Greek: Δυναστεία των Ατταλιδών) was a Hellenistic dynasty that ruled the city of Pergamon after the death of Lysimachus, a general of Alexander the Great.The Attalid kingdom was the rump state left after the collapse of the Lysimachian Empire

77. Some parallels to Perek Shira exist outside Hebrew literature: the Testament of Adam (preserved in Syriac, Greek, and in later translations), which contains horaries of praise by the whole of creation framed in an apocalyptic Angelologic vision similar to that in Seder Rabba de-Bereshit and may have originated from Jewish Hellenistic circles

78. The history of ancient Greek Coinage can be divided (along with most other Greek art forms) into four periods: the Archaic, the Classical, the Hellenistic and the Roman.The Archaic period extends from the introduction of Coinage to the Greek world during the 7th century BC until the Persian Wars in about 480 BC

79. Atticism was a rhetorical movement that began in the first quarter of the 1st century BC; it may also refer to the wordings and phrasings typical of this movement, in contrast with various contemporary forms of Koine Greek, which continued to evolve in directions guided by the common usages of Hellenistic Greek.

80. Greece’s most beloved instrument, the Bouzouki is an easily recognizable string instrument which still looks very similar to its ancestor, the pandoura.Creating a distinct transition from antiquity to the Hellenistic period, the Bouzouki is what it is today thanks to a constant back-and-forth between Greece and the East.