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- of Gentile rulers, who saw the Jewish religion as a force for law and order ... Some Greek rulers came to see the Jewish religion as an obstacle to peace ...9 KB (1,497 words) - 06:44, 13 June 2023
- This chthonic role was especially pronounced in Roman religion, which ... emphasized the sexual aspects of the religion, and invented terrifying ...10 KB (1,570 words) - 05:25, 26 August 2023
- also includes the Pre-Socratics, Hellenistic philosophy, and Roman ... Plato, Aristotle, and those developed in Hellenistic and Roman periods. ...16 KB (2,127 words) - 19:43, 26 July 2023
- as the founder of the Stoic school of Hellenistic philosophy. Born the son ... Zeno is best known as the originator of the Stoic school of Hellenistic ...9 KB (1,466 words) - 05:48, 13 June 2023
- not a consensus, but most scholars of Hellenistic literature now believe ... aetiology) and other popular subjects of Hellenistic poetry. Apollonius also ...10 KB (1,538 words) - 15:46, 11 August 2023
- and teacher who lived in Alexandria, in Hellenistic Egypt, just before the ... attempted to suppress the “pagan” Hellenistic thinkers. ...11 KB (1,782 words) - 16:39, 10 February 2024
- O children of Abraham, die nobly for your religion" (6:17-22). The author ... Fight the holy and honorable fight of religion" (4 Mac 9:23). The ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 06:46, 13 June 2023
- Educated in Rome, Agrippa was a thoroughly Hellenistic Jew. After ... in Jewish religious circles for his Hellenistic lifestyle, his alleged ...13 KB (2,047 words) - 06:49, 16 June 2023
- was one of the most popular schools of Hellenistic philosophy (together with ... number of works by Philodemus, a late Hellenistic Epicurean, and Epicurus ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
- *Long, A.A. and David N. Sedley, eds. The Hellenistic Philosophers ... Category:Philosophy and religion 47571038 ...9 KB (1,393 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
- one of the most influential schools of Hellenistic philosophy. He succeeded ... a founder of the Stoic school of Hellenistic philosophy. Though only ...9 KB (1,399 words) - 21:54, 10 December 2023
- The Hellenistic period of Greek history was the period between the ... which tended to be more authoritarian. Religion, too, was given more prominence ...12 KB (1,804 words) - 10:51, 19 December 2023
- Judaeus (c. 20 B.C.E.–c. 50 C.E.), a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher whose ... Judaeus (c. 20 B.C.E.–c. 50 C.E.), a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher whose ...12 KB (1,737 words) - 17:51, 13 February 2024
- E.), became a major festival during the Hellenistic era, and later spread ... C.E., as part of his effort to suppress Hellenistic resistance to the imposition ...18 KB (2,798 words) - 16:07, 13 February 2024
- Judaism against the pressures of Hellenistic culture. The more Hellenized ... all such views as fatal to Jewish religion and cultural identity. The ...13 KB (2,033 words) - 20:40, 4 October 2022
- predicates. Al-Kindī differed from the Hellenistic tradition in arguing for ... Category:Philosophy and religion Category:Religion Category:Biography ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 04:13, 17 June 2023
- a relatively small role in the everyday religion of Mesopotamia. After the ... inherent part of the Babylonian-Assyrian religion. It also led to the universalization ...10 KB (1,744 words) - 21:24, 24 March 2024
- the stars. His story is described in the Hellenistic myths including Homer’s ... text no longer exists. Nevertheless, the Hellenistic writer Eratosthenes has ...11 KB (1,784 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
- one of the most popular schools of Hellenistic Philosophy. He taught ... one of the three leading movements of Hellenistic thought. ...19 KB (3,054 words) - 19:07, 13 February 2024
- eds. 1999. The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy. Cambridge: ... *Long, A.A. and D.N. Sedley, eds. and trans. The Hellenistic Philosophers ...11 KB (1,736 words) - 00:29, 29 November 2023
