Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the Hellenists.
- adjective Of or relating to postclassical Greek history and culture from the death of Alexander the Great to the accession of Augustus.
- adjective Relating to or in the style of the Greek art or architecture of this period.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling or partaking of Hellenic character, but not truly Hellenic; combining Greek and foreign characteristics or elements, as many of the later Greeks and the Hellenized neighboring peoples, or the modified Greek language, thought, etc., current among them.
- Particularly, in sculpture and painting, characteristic of the school of Greek art based on the art of Lysippus, the court sculptor of Alexander the Great, which may or may not be considered to include the work of Lysippus himself.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to the Hellenists.
- adjective the Greek spoken or used by the Jews who lived in countries where the Greek language prevailed; the Jewish-Greek dialect or idiom of the Septuagint.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to the period of the Greek culture, history, or art after the death of Alexander the Great (323 B.C.) to the defeat of Cleopatra and Mark Antony by Octavian (31 B.C.)--though this end-point is often debated.
- adjective Of or relating to a
Hellenist .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or characteristic of the classical Greek civilization
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yet given that lesbianism is absent from biblical literature and very rare in Hellenistic literature, one must import modern ideas into the text to get a condemnation of female homosexuality.
Fighting Gay Marriage without calling people names nissa_amas_katoj 2008
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Egypt and western Asia were ruled by men of Greek or Macedonian blood and gradually took on more or less of Greek civilization, is often called the Hellenistic period.
A History of Greek Art Frank Bigelow Tarbell 1886
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Eosphorus, the "Bringer of Dawn"; the evening star they called Hellenistic times, it was realized they were the same planet.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Whether Hellenistic aorists or the Latin word for sin. "
Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics Second Series James Williams 1881
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During the campaigns of 2005-2007, we excavated in the northernmost of its three sections, between the so-called Hellenistic South Gate and the Tiberian gateway of the Lower Agora, clearing the pavement and making soundings below the road surface.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - The North-South Colonnaded Street Report 1 2003
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As the cultural supremacy of Athens grew, its dialect, the Attic, spread at the expense of the rest, until, in the so-called Hellenistic period following the Macedonian conquest, the Attic dialect, in the vulgarized form known as the Koine, became the standard speech of all Greece.
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Jews in Egypt and throughout Europe, commonly called Hellenistic
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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With the culmination of Greek effort in the so-called Hellenistic period we have seen ancient science at its climax.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science 1904
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Its being written in the purest Greek shows it was intended not only for the Jews at Jerusalem, but also for the Hellenistic, that is, Greek-speaking, Jews.
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Hellenic influences began to act on the Jewish mind, and a peculiar dialect of Hebrew-Greek, called the Hellenistic, was formed.
Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology James Freeman Clarke 1849
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