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| | Hellenistic Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Although the establishment of Roman rule did not break the continuity of Hellenistic society and culture, which remained essentially unchanged until the advent of Christianity, it did mark the end of Greek political independence. | | | The battle against the Gauls united the Antigonids of Macedon and the Seleucids of Antioch, an alliance which was also directed against the wealthiest Hellenistic power, the Ptolemies of Egypt. | | | In 307 BC Antigonus's son Demetrius captured Athens and restored its democratic system, which had been suppressed by Alexander. |
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| | American Historical Association |
| | The bifurcated character of Hellenistic Jewish literature has traditionally been explained as being the result of literary activity by Jews living in two distinct environments, the former reflecting the traditional Jewish ambiance of Hellenistic Judaea and the latter the experience of Hellenized Jews living in the cosmopolitan environment of Ptolemaic Alexandria. | | | This picture of the Hellenistic state as an example of a planned society, which the early Hellenistic historians teased out of the evidence, was breathtaking in its completeness and apparent rationality--and hardly any aspect of it has remained unchallenged by recent scholarship. | | | The new view of the Hellenistic state is, in part, the result of the contemporary scholarly reaction against "Eurocentric" interpretations. |
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| | The Jewish Diaspora in the Hellenistic Period |
| | The ancient Hellenistic historian Hecataeus of Abdera in his account of Judaism, written in the beginning of the Hellenistic Period, characterized the Jewish religion rather favorably. | | | The Hellenistic Diaspora was, for the most part, a voluntary movement of Jews into the Hellenistic kingdoms that created the Jewish presence outside Judea, especially in Ptolemaic Egypt (Collins, 3). | | | Yet the Jewish Diaspora of the Hellenistic period should not be confused with either the Babylonian or the later Roman Diasporas. |
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| | AHA Information: Michael I. Rostovtzeff Presidential Address (1935) |
| | Alexander's reign marks the end of this period, of separatism and primacy of politics. | | | Commerce, both in Greece and outside it, was in the service of politics, and the Greek city-states pursued selfish and narrow economic aims of their own, to which their commerce was subservient. | | | But I am convinced that in the economic life of the Hellenistic bourgeoisie capitalistic organization was the most characteristic feature, and that capitalism was then rapidly penetrating into new regions and steadily conquering new individual households. |
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| | Hellenistic_Women |
| | Either Aphrodite was mad because Praxiteles had, without permission, surreptitiously viewed her nakedness, or Praxiteles' rendition was incredibly true-to-form, publicly displaying all of Aphrodite's beauty and flaws. | | | She went out in public with her husband, she attended dinner parties, and she must have been the talk of the town. | | | In Asia and Egypt, public works projects for flood control and irrigation swallowed up a sizable amount of state expenditures.5 All things considered, the economy of the Hellenistic age was not consistently poor, but neither was it excellent. |
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| | Cultural Transition and Spiritual Transformation: From Alexander the Great to Cyberspace |
| | And like the Hellenistic Jewish tradition out of which it arose,the Christ cult projected this imagery of transformation onto the cosmositself by perpetuating and elaborating the apocalyptic vision of the endof the world that had been the Jewish response to the Hellenistic revolution. | | | Indeed, just as the Hellenistic Jews responded to the socio-cosmic transformationof their own time with their vision of ultimate catastrophe and apocalypse,so in our own time apocalyptic ideation permeates our worldview. | | | But it is crucial to notice that this new understanding of where thegods had gone and how they might be contacted meshed perfectly with thedevelopments that we discussed earlier that arose out of the socialtransformation of the Hellenistic world. |
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| | Chapter 27: The Early Hellenistic Period |
| | A Persian administrator named Marduka (Mordecai) is known from this period, but there is no indication that he was a Jew, although some Jewish parents did give their children the name Mordecai, which honored the chief god of Babylon (cf. | | | Perhaps something of the low degree to which prophecy had sunk is implied in 13:4-6. | | | The reference to the dispersed Jews best fits the Greek period (3:8). |
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| | Ethics of the Hellenistic Era by Sanderson Beck |
| | Many Hellenistic cities were established with the designated number of 5,300 male citizens, close to what was recommended in Plato's | | | Its prophecies indicate that at least part of Daniel was probably written about 164 BC during the Maccabean revolt, the point at which the prophecies go astray. | | | Many Jewish lives had been lost in resistance, but Roman power eventually made this cunning Idumean king of the Jews under their empire. |
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| | Alexander's Empire Disintegrates |
| | And scholars believe that in these adoptions, Jewish scribes borrowed concepts that were not commonly known to Jews before they became a part of Hellenistic society. | | | Aramaic remained the language of most Jews - in Judea and Mesopotamia - and an effort was made to preserve Hebrew as the main language of literature and of religious gatherings, while Jewish scribes writing in Hebrew adopted Greek literary forms in their religious writings. | | | Perhaps because most literate Jews could no longer read Hebrew, Jewish scribes in Alexandria were put to work translating into Greek the Five Books of Moses. |
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| | General overviews (The Hellenistic World on the Web) |
| | Greece and the Hellenistic World by John Boardman, Jasper Griffin, Oswyn Murray et al. | | | A Hellenistic Bibliography: History and Society by Martijn Cuypers. | | | General overviews (The Hellenistic World on the Web) |
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| | Greek art: The Hellenistic Period |
| | Hasmonian Jesuralem: a Jewish city in a hellenistic orbit. | | | Legal Documents of the Hellenistic World: Papers from a Seminar Arranged by the Institute oc Classical Studies, the Institute of Jewish Studies and the Warburg Institute, University of London, February to May 1986.(Review) (The Journal of the American Oriental Society) | | | Hellenisation.(Housing in New Halos: a Hellenistic town in Thessaly, Greece)(Portraits of the Ptolemies: Greek kings as Egyptian pharaohs)(Uruk: Siegelabdrucke auf hellenistischen Tonbullen und Tontafeln)(Book Review) (Antiquity) |
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| | Alan Petersen: Hellenistic |
| | The altar was built by Attalus to commemorate his father's (Attalus I) victories against the invasion attempted by the Gauls in Asia Minor after they had invaded and sacked other parts of the Greek world. | | | Here the agony of a painful death is expressed in the figure of the fallen warrior whose blood flows from the wound in his chest. | | | It begins with the death of Alexander the Great and ends with the defeat of Mark Antony and Cleopatra (who was a Greek queen ruling in Egypt) at the the Battle of Actium by Augustus. |
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| | Other finds speak to the mixed Phoenician-Greek character of the city. | | | Archaeological explorations have revealed extensive evidence of the Hellenistic city. | | | Numismatic evidence corroborates the city's episodic role in the interrelations and struggles of the great Seleucid and Ptolemaic powers; coins of some of the rulers mentioned in Jewish sources in relation to Dor, and of others have been found at the site. |
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| | Hellenistic Thought |
| | Philo Judaeus, for example, tried to develop a comprehensive view embracing both Plato and Judaism. | | | Despite (or because of) the gloomy prospects held forward by these schools of philosophy, the later Hellenistic period also produced significant movement toward the consolidation of the older Greek philosophical tradition with the middle-eastern religions of Judaism and Christianity. | | | Although the general culture of this "Hellenistic" period remained Greek in spirit, political power was vested in a highly centralized state, established and maintained primarily through extensive applications of military force. |
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| | A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science |
| | But that transfer did not occur until Alexandria had enjoyed a longer period of supremacy as an intellectual centre than had perhaps ever before been granted to any city, with the possible exception of Babylon. | | | Had Aristarchus known the size of any one of the bodies in question, he might readily, of course, have determined the size of the others by the mere application of his relative scale; but he had no means of determining the size of the earth, and to this extent his system of measurements remained imperfect. | | | During that period Rome rose to its pinnacle of glory and began to decline, without ever challenging the intellectual supremacy of the Egyptian city. |
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| | CHI seminar: 'Priests, Magicians and Incantations in Hellenistic Egypt' |
| | The complexity of this bi-cultural world has in the past eluded scholars, who persist in studying only the highly visible Greek political center in Alexandria," said Chris Faraone, Associate Professor in Classical Languages & Literatures, one of the organizers of the series. | | | The fourth meeting, "Narrative Strategies in Greek and Egyptian Prose of the Hellenistic Period," will be held on April 4, 1998, at the Chicago Humanities Institute. | | | "The study of this era has been difficult until now largely because documents produced in Hellenistic Egypt were written in two separate languages, Greek and Egyptian, and studied by scholars in two separate fields, Classics and Egyptology," Faraone said. |
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| | Trade Relations in the Eastern Mediterranean from Late Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity: The Ceramic Evidence, Acts ... |
| | Trade Relations in the Eastern Mediterranean from Late Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity: The Ceramic Evidence, Acts from a Ph.D. - seminar for young scholars, Sandbjerg Manorhouse, 12-15 February 1998 by Maria Berg Briese, Search Cheap Books, Discount Books, ISBN 8778389585 | | | Search 80 Bookstores for: Trade Relations in the Eastern Mediterranean from Late Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity: The Ceramic Evidence, Acts from a Ph.D. - seminar for young scholars, Sandbjerg Manorhouse, 12-15 February 1998 by Maria Berg Briese | | | Trade Relations in the Eastern Mediterranean from Late Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity: The Ceramic Evidence, Acts from a Ph.D. - seminar for young scholars, Sandbjerg Manorhouse, 12-15 February 1998 |
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| | The Horse and Jockey from Artemision |
| | He then recounts with riveting detail the discovery and painstaking restoration of the statue group, describing the technique of its creation and carefully reviewing scholarly knowledge and speculation about it. | | | In 1928, and again in 1937, parts of a large-scale bronze horse and nearly complete jockey were recovered from the sea off Cape Artemision in Greece, where they had gone down in a shipwreck. | | | Seán Hemingway has been allowed by the National Museum in Athens to investigate the horse and jockey statuary group as no one ever has before, and in this book, combining archaeological and art historical methods of investigation, he provides the first in-depth study of this rare and beautiful monument. |
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| | 70 Truckloads of Treasures - Christianity Today Magazine |
| | The biggest surprise has been large amounts of remains from the early Christian or Byzantine period. | | | Arrowheads found include one dating to the siege of Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B.C. "It was probably shot at the armies of Zedekiah, the last king of Judah, who guarded the temple just before it was burned by the Babylonians," Barkay said. | | | Barkay said part of Jerusalem's history will have to be rewritten. |
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| | Life in the Hellenistic City |
| | Not required this week, but available because of Monday's discussion: Erich Guen's Jews and Greeks, from | | | In beginning to study the Hellenistic city, we must also clarify what our sources are and how they are to be used. | | | Art in the Hellenistic Age, and Graham Shipley, The Greek World After Alexander. |
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| | Jordan - History - The Hellenistic Period |
| | The Seleucids, who were based in Syria, ruled Jordan from 198-63 BCE. | | | Greek was established as the official language, although Aramaic remained the primary spoken language of ordinary people. | | | The most spectacular Hellenistic site in Jordan is at ‘Iraq al-Amir, just west of modern-day Amman. |
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| | Hellenistic Period - Eduseek |
| | Contact us : Comments and Suggestions : Map | | | Subjects > History > History - 12+ > Empires and Civilizations > Ancient Civilizations > Ancient Greece > Hellenistic Period | | | Link to us : Add Eduseek to your site : Newsletter |
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| | This was followed by a period of wars and invasions, known as the Dark Ages. | | | In the period from 500-336 BC Greece was divided into small city states, each of which consisted of a city and its surrounding countryside. | | | It was named for the kingdom of Mycenae and the archaeological site where fabulous works in gold were unearthed. |
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| | Hellenistic civilization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The term Hellenistic (derived from Ἕλλην Héllēn, the Greeks' word for themselves) was established by the German historian Johann Gustav Droysen to refer to the shift from a culture dominated by ethnic Greeks to a culture dominated by Greek-speakers of various ethnicities, and from the political dominance of the city-state to that of larger monarchies. | | | Modern historians see the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC as the beginning of the Hellenistic period. | | | The end of the Hellenistic period is generally seen as 31 BC, when the power of Ptolemaic Egypt was smashed by the Romans at the Battle of Actium. |
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| | ArtLex on Hellenistic Art |
| | Hellenistic Greece, Samothrace (island in the North Aegean Sea), c. | | | Hellenistic Greece, Melos (the Cyclades islands), Aphrodite, known as | | | Many of the features of the Hellenistic style can be found in these works: |
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| | The Hellenistic period was an international, cosmopolitan age. | | | Commercial contacts were widespread and peoples of many ethnic and religious backgrounds merged in populous urban centers. | | | Their defeat marks the end of the Hellenistic Age. |
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| | Athenian Ephebia Paper |
| | The other document that is a great example of the activities of the ephebes is document 3, which was written in 122-121 B.C., during the Hellenistic era, before Sulla. | | | Even though the Hellenistic period, before Sulla, was non compulsory, it contained about 70-179 ephebes because Athenian families were making more money and were able to send their sons to train in the Ephebeia. | | | This means that the ephebe’s father had to pay for them to go through their training, unlike the classical Hellenistic era, which was compulsory (Aristotle was a strong believer in public education), and made it a requirement that all young Athenian men go through the Athenian Ephebeia. |
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| | A Comprehensive Bibliography of Hellenistic Greek Linguistics |
| | The Phonology of Attic in the Hellenistic Period. | | | "Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Interpretations of Greek Phonology: Prolegomena to a Theory of Sound Patterns in the Hellenistic Greek 'Koine'." Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1972. | | | This work is included here because no equivalent work for hellenistic Greek exists.] |
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| | Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.02.20 |
| | B's comments on the court as first audience of Hellenistic court poetry (esp. pp. | | | Encomiastic poetry of the Hellenistic royal courts is currently the object of wide and renewed scholarly interest from several perspectives. | | | While this is indeed a scholarly commentary on two encomiastic elegiac fragments of the Hellenistic period with a wealth of philological and critical detail, it is at the same time a much larger cultural study of the world these two fragments recall. |
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| | Hellenistic period (from Western sculpture) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | For some purposes the period is extended for a further three and a half centuries, to the move by Constantine the Great of his capital to Constantinople (Byzantium) in AD 330. | | | Exhaustive resources on social, economical, political, and cultural facets of life in the Hellenic lands under Roman rule, during the period 146 BC - 330 AD. | | | Covers designs from the ancient world, the early foundations of western architecture, the early christian period, the Gothic period, the Renaissance, the baroque period, the 18th and 19th centuries, and 1890 to present. |
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| | Hellenistic Greece |
| | The Hellenistic age was the "age of the Greeks; during this time, Greek culture and power extended itself across the known world. | | | In spite of the political turbulence and chaos of the fourth century BC, Greece was poised on its most triumphant period: the Hellenistic age. | | | Into this situation, at the peak of the political chaos roiling the Greek world to the south, stepped a powerful king who unified the country of Macedon and set his sights on conquering the whole of the Greek world: Philip of Macedon. |
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| | Hellenistic period - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Hellenistic period |
| | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | | | Alexandria in Egypt was the centre of culture and commerce during this period, and Greek culture spread throughout the Mediterranean region and the near East. | | | Period in Greek civilization from the death of Alexander in 323 |
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| | Hellenistic period - Politics |
| | The Hellenistic states as they were formed approximately in |
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| | Hellenistic Greece - History for Kids! |
| | The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome, by Erich S. Gruen (1984). | | | There were three main parts: Egypt, which was ruled by a man named Ptolemy, Seleucia (modern Israel, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan), which was ruled by a man named Seleucus, and Macedon and Greece. | | | To find out more about the history of Hellenistic Greece, check out these books from Amazon.com or from your local library: |
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| | Hellenistic Art |
| | The conventions and rules of the classical period gave way to the experimentation and a sense of freedom that allowed the artist to explore his subjects from different unique points of view. | | | While Philip of Macedon conquered and united the Greek city-states, his son Alexander the Great embraced on a campaign that found him the conqueror of a vast empire which included Greece, Persia, the Near East, and Egypt. | | | The statue of Hygea of which only the head survives, is a good example of how Hellenistic art evolved to carve its own niche into the flow of history without breaking with the traditional values that made its existence possible. |
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| | Many Hellenistic tendencies were realized in this work. | | | The great art centers were no longer in mainland Greece but in the islands, such as Rhodes, and the cities in the eastern Mediterranean--Alexandria, Antioch, and Pergamon. | | | Painting Some of the painting of the time has been preserved, mainly in chamber tombs with painted facades and interiors. |
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| | Hellenistic Period in Anatolia and Asia Minor |
| | It is said that Ptolemy, during the turmoil, had brought the mummified body of Alexander the Great to the city of Memphis in Egypt, and the remnant of this mummy was later taken to Rome by Augustus after his conquest of Egypt. | | | Seleucids built numerous cities in their dominion of which most were named Seleucia (named after Seleucus) or Antioch (named after Antiochus the father of Seleucus). | | | It was the age of many Kings who were former generals of Alexander. |
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| | The Hellenistic Period |
| | The Hellenistic Period was a time of expansion of the Greek world and the Hellenizing of many parts of the Mediterranean, including parts of N. Africa, Italy, the Meditteranean Islands, Asia Minor, the Baltics, the Black Sea, Pallistine, and beyond to Persia, Bactria, and India. | | | It was also a period during which the Hellenic art of war spread over a wide area, beginning with the conquests of Alexander and following through the period of his successors down through the turn of the millenium. | | | The period covers roughly the fourth century BC to the end of the first century BC, ending with the conquests of Rome. |
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| | Al Ain National Museum - UAE |
| | This site which must have been already a large harbour during the first century AD reached its climax during that time. | | | This influence dwindled during the following period when a new era started. | | | The influence of the Sasanian Empire became very much apparent during this period. |
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| | Epicurus [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | This book deals with Epicurean and Stoic theories of what the mind is. | | | Renaissance and early modern periods, when reaction against scholastic neo-Aristotelianism led thinkers to turn to mechanistic explanations of natural phenomena. | | | However, do not assume that the interpretations of Epicurus in these books are always widely accepted. |
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| | HELLENISTIC PERIOD / 322 BCE- 63 CE The settlement of the Macedonian Greeks in the conquered lands of the East was accompanied by the founding of cities. | | | The Hellenistic polis in the East was an intermediate stage between the classical city-state in Greece and a city of the Roman Empire, which enjoyed municipal autonomy but was not involved in foreign policy or defense. | | | Greek dominance in the East led to the diffusion of the Greek language and the gradual infiltration of the Greek pantheon and its cult into the worship of local Eastern deities. |
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| | History of Greece |
| | The History of Greece extends back to the arrival of the Greeks in Europe some time before 1500 BC, even though there has only been an independent state called Greece since 1821. | | | Follow the links in this table to articles on the various periods of Greek history. |
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| | Babylonian King list of the Hellenistic Period |
| | Together with the Uruk King List, the Babylonian King List of the Hellenistic Period is a useful text for those who are reconstructing the chronology of Babylonia in the late fourth to mid-second centuries. | | | The Babylonian King List of the Hellenistic Period (also known as "King List 6") is an important historiographical document from ancient Babylonia. | | | On this website, you will find a new transciption and translation by Bert van der Spek of the Free University of Amsterdam (Netherlands), who has recently restudied this tablet as part of his publication of the Babylonian Chronicles of the Hellenistic Period. |
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| | Hellenistic Philosophy Timeline/Freeland/University of Houston |
| | "Hellenistic" refers to a broad time period roughly from the death of Aristotle in 323/2 B.C.E. up through the second century C.E. During this period the centers of intellectual inquiry in many fields shifted from Athens to other regions around the Mediterranean, as political power shifted, including both Rome and Alexandria in Egypt. | | | Both the schools of Aristotle (the Lyceum) and Plato (the Academy) continued in Athens for some time; the Academy remained open until the 6th century C.E. There were important new discoveries in medical science and astronomy, among many other fields. | | | The term "Hellenistic" derives from the Greek word "hellenizo" which means to "act Greek" or "Greekify." In short, this is a time period in which literature, art, architecture, and philosophy were all acutely conscious of a debt to (and sometimes feelings of inferiority to or derivativeness upon) classical Hellenic culture. |
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