"Hellenistic" simply means that which has been influenced by Greek culture. Since the reign of Alexander the Great had seen a large expansion to the east, this time can be characterized as a spread and a refinement of Greek society through the spread of Greek culture and philosophy. After ...
Greek and Hellenistic cultures Use of the Egyptian stone frame diffused throughout the eastern Mediterranean after 1800bce, and the cultures of mainlandGreecewere particularly attracted to it. In the Greek world of the Aegean and southernItaly, many stone-frame temples were built; some have survived...
In Hellenistic times (323–30 bce) Callimachus, a 3rd-century-bce poet and scholar in Alexandria, recorded many obscure myths; his contemporary, the mythographer Euhemerus, suggested that the gods were originally human, a view known as Euhemerism. Apollonius of Rhodes, another scholar of the 3r...
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In addition, we note that environmental determinism also fails to predict the evolution of modern societies. In Section 5, we describe the Minoan civilization, which had an admirable social structure, impressive technology, culture and infrastructure. It dominated in the wider area of the Aegean ...
: Compare archaic (def. 4), Hellenistic (def. 5). of or relating to a style of literature and art characterized by conformity to established treatments, taste, or critical standards, and by attention to form with the general effect of regularity, simplicity, balance, proportion, and ...
It came from Tarentum, Italy and was created during the first century BCE, or late Hellenistic period of Greek art (The Walters). There is no known artist. This paper will include an in depth description of the Procession of Twelve Deities as a whole and figure by figure. It will also...
The barrel drum was possibly known in Hellenistic times, for it appears in the Greco-Indian culture of Kushan. A shallow drum is depicted on a Greco-Scythian metal gorytus, or bow-and-arrow case, of the 4th century bce, but there is no evidence of its having been known to Greece. ...
Euphorion was a Greek poet and grammarian, of Chalcis in Euboea, whose poetry was highly regarded in Hellenistic literary circles and later among Catullus’s generation of Roman poets in the 1st century bc. In Book III of the Tuscalan Disputations, Cicer
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