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- Hebrews does not fit the form of a traditional Hellenistic epistle, lacking a proper prescript. Modern scholars generally believe this book was originally ...18 KB (2,863 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- culture, arts and literature of Western civilization. Indeed, Greek mythological ... in writings of scholars and poets of the Hellenistic Age and the Roman Empire ...45 KB (6,635 words) - 21:31, 12 July 2023
- In Hellenistic times, Oxyrhynchus was a prosperous regional capital ... E.), whose comedies were very popular in Hellenistic times and whose works ...19 KB (2,886 words) - 06:03, 18 November 2022
- **Hellenistic astrology **Jyotish or Vedic astrology **Persian-Arabic ... Mediterranean region and specifically Hellenistic Egypt sometime around ...33 KB (4,705 words) - 18:24, 19 August 2023
- In Europe, the Hellenistic period saw a more picturesque carving style ... * Glyphs and artwork of the Maya civilization, low relief ...15 KB (2,307 words) - 03:37, 8 December 2022
- ancient Eastern traditions blend with Hellenistic architecture. ... A period follows in which the dominant civilization combines Greek ...24 KB (3,829 words) - 14:47, 28 March 2023
- cosmetics, and other necessities of civilization that had been kept secret ... Clement of Alexandria, influenced by Hellenistic cosmology, attributed ...12 KB (1,932 words) - 20:02, 31 January 2023
- house the dead, reveals much about the civilization of ancient Egypt. Scientists ... 2,000 years old. It was popularized in Hellenistic times when the Great Pyramid ...33 KB (5,140 words) - 03:38, 7 December 2022
- * The Hellenistic ruin of Qasr al Abd, in the near-by valley of Wadi Al Seer * Petra, two hours from Aqaba, is one of the most breathtaking places ...17 KB (2,613 words) - 00:55, 9 January 2023
- to have laid the foundations of western civilization as revived and re-interpreted ... Greeks migrated to the newly-conquered Hellenistic empire in the east. ...19 KB (3,013 words) - 18:52, 19 August 2023
- *Buckle, Henry Thomas. History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2. Adamant Media Corporation, 2006. *Charron, Pierre. The "Wisdom" of ...13 KB (1,975 words) - 05:20, 24 November 2022
- informed the public of the laws of the civilization, while in Asia, stelae ... Ptolemy V who was the fifth ruler of the Hellenistic Ptolemaic Dynasty. The ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 22:31, 23 September 2022
- although the fact that the Olmec civilization had come to an end by ... alone, not just as a placeholder, this Hellenistic zero was perhaps the first ...30 KB (4,810 words) - 06:25, 13 June 2023
- be the foundational culture of Western civilization. Greek culture was a powerful ... The civilization of the ancient Greeks has been immensely influential ...48 KB (7,639 words) - 12:24, 14 October 2023
- have unearthed layers of Phoenician, Hellenistic, Roman, Arab, and Ottoman ... have unearthed layers of Phoenician, Hellenistic, Roman, Arab, and Ottoman ...27 KB (4,043 words) - 18:41, 11 January 2023
- 250 px|Mohenjo-daro of the Indus Valley Civilization in present-day Pakistan.]] ... Antioch, and Seleucia of the Hellenistic civilization, Pataliputra (now ...41 KB (6,075 words) - 22:26, 10 December 2023
- role in the founding of Egyptian civilization. Bordering lands were ... the Nile River for irrigation, Egyptian civilization would probably have been ...23 KB (3,670 words) - 09:48, 11 March 2023
- hold upon the sites of the oldest civilization, Argos, Mycenae, and Sparta… ... in her iconographic representations. In Hellenistic imagery, Hera's wagon ...19 KB (3,127 words) - 09:47, 22 January 2024
- historical term broadly refers to the civilization of the Nile Valley between ... Egyptian civilization had a bias towards unity, rather than towards ...44 KB (6,818 words) - 19:13, 26 July 2023
- writings gleaned from the work of the Hellenistic Period Egyptian priest ... ancient culture. This progenitor civilization is supposed to have been ...29 KB (4,489 words) - 20:54, 26 September 2023
- succession of more than 30 Hellenic and Hellenistic kings, ... The Greco-Bactrians maintained a strong Hellenistic culture at the ...61 KB (8,976 words) - 19:50, 4 March 2024
- The first sculptures in India date back to the Indus Valley civilization ... of Indian post-Gupta mannerism, with Hellenistic or even Greco-Roman, influences ...27 KB (4,032 words) - 17:31, 25 January 2023
- Atlas, a second century Roman copy of a Hellenistic work (Naples)]] ... culture, arts and literature of Western civilization. Though the ancient Greek ...15 KB (2,163 words) - 16:42, 23 July 2020
- were a pre-Hellenic Bronze Age civilization in Crete in the Aegean ... the current ruler of the Minoan civilization. What the Minoans called ...35 KB (5,383 words) - 18:52, 9 November 2022
- The first recorded use of trigonometry came from the Hellenistic mathematician Hipparchus Joseph Hunt, [http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~cherlin/History/Pa ...19 KB (2,702 words) - 16:52, 2 May 2023
- The cult of Isis rose to prominence in the Hellenistic world, beginning ... he instituted, and Isis acquired in the Hellenistic age a "new rank as ...32 KB (5,200 words) - 06:08, 8 March 2024
- non-Greek areas, a period known as the Hellenistic Age. Alexander himself ... effects, with the flourishing of Hellenistic civilization throughout the Middle ...47 KB (7,410 words) - 20:29, 18 July 2023
- characteristics of Western civilization. His goal was to find reasons ... Chinese civilization had no religious prophecy nor a powerful priestly ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 01:03, 9 November 2022
- alone, not as just a placeholder, this Hellenistic zero was the first documented ... of Numbers: How Mathematics Has Shaped Civilization. New York: Fawcett Columbine ...37 KB (5,685 words) - 00:43, 17 November 2022
- of the original Mycenaean Spartan civilization, as represented in Homer ... This civilization seems to have fallen into decline by the late Bronze ...46 KB (7,079 words) - 19:09, 7 February 2023
- Taxila, an important center of trade and Hellenistic culture, increasing his ... role in his victory against western Hellenistic kings at the Battle of ...32 KB (4,663 words) - 00:50, 9 November 2022
- in Central Asian, Middle Eastern, and Hellenistic mythology. See Powell, 211-241, for an overview. *Demeter placed Aethon, the god of famine, ...20 KB (3,054 words) - 09:24, 28 January 2024
- of European and American thought and civilization. Delving into Ancient Rome, Hellenistic Greece and Biblical times, he found a close resemblance ...16 KB (2,449 words) - 01:35, 16 November 2022
- largely lost due to the discontinuity of the civilization,Demisch, Heinz. 1977. “Die Sphinx.” Geschichte ihrer Darstellung von den Anfangen bis zur ...16 KB (2,587 words) - 15:21, 27 April 2023
- was adopted from the Greeks during the Hellenistic period. ... Sanhedrin. Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. Oxford University Press ...18 KB (2,856 words) - 01:20, 21 April 2023
- has a long history of settlement and civilization, including the Indus Valley ... As one of the cradles of human civilization, the Pakistani region ...40 KB (5,985 words) - 19:54, 7 March 2024
- Regarded as the cradle of western civilization and the birthplace ... to appear around Greece was the Minoan civilization in Crete, which lasted ...73 KB (10,722 words) - 18:19, 27 January 2023
- and weakened the entire fabric of Greek civilization. Greek warfare, originally ... War. This would lead to the spread of Hellenistic culture throughout the ...32 KB (5,003 words) - 07:14, 23 November 2022
- Edom (אֱדוֹם, ʾĔḏôm, "red") was a nation in the southern Levant from the eleventh century B.C.E until Roman times. The region ...18 KB (2,821 words) - 21:09, 8 August 2023
- one of the classic works in all of western civilization. ... mother Perictione. According to a late Hellenistic account by Diogenes Laertius ...37 KB (6,078 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
- si.edu/success-stories/cradle-civilization-new-generation-preserves ... in Ancient Egypt, the Indus Valley civilization in the Indian subcontinent ...54 KB (7,940 words) - 19:20, 25 March 2024
- Considered one of the original "Cradle of Civilization" ... Archaeologists have demonstrated that civilization in Syria was one ...53 KB (7,689 words) - 00:57, 21 April 2023
- the tragic situation of contemporary civilization was a great opportunity ... * A History of Christian Thought: From its Judaic and Hellenistic ...22 KB (3,350 words) - 01:34, 23 November 2022
- modern Tunis in Tunisia—and to the civilization which developed within ... Rome. Although a distinct Carthaginian civilization ceased to exist, remnants ...45 KB (7,001 words) - 00:42, 29 November 2023
- India.Joseph Needham. 1986. Science and Civilization in China: Volume 3. (Taipei: ... its qualities, and its origins, with the Hellenistic belief that it was of ...27 KB (3,827 words) - 18:48, 9 November 2022
- of cities and thus was worshiped in Hellenistic culture as Athena Polias ("Athena of the city"). In particular, she had a special relationship ...30 KB (4,535 words) - 18:52, 19 August 2023
- were the dominant form of book in the Hellenistic, Roman, Chinese and Hebrew ... gained much popularity in the pagan Hellenistic world, and only within ...32 KB (5,045 words) - 07:24, 17 November 2023
- Arab language and to the rediscovered Hellenistic philosophers. Saadia perceived ... Arabic was a landmark in the history of civilization; it served for centuries ...22 KB (3,468 words) - 18:29, 22 December 2022
- contact with Carthage, Greece, and the Hellenistic East in the third and ... offense.Lewis and Reinhold, Roman Civilization Volume I (Columbia University ...39 KB (5,853 words) - 00:03, 19 November 2020
- polytheism, Slavic polytheism and pre-Hellenistic Greek religion, as well ... monotheism, the Platonic idealism of Hellenistic philosophy, the notion ...54 KB (7,792 words) - 03:38, 8 December 2022
- political power. His first book Does Civilization Need Religion? (1927) ... forms of physical desire. It is the Hellenistic, classical view of sin ...32 KB (4,798 words) - 03:06, 8 December 2022
- #039;s influence in mixing cultures led to the Hellenistic Age of Mesopotamia and North Africa. ;Roman invasion of Britain In the Roman conquest ...33 KB (5,040 words) - 11:07, 6 March 2024
- the Great (356-323 B.C.E.), the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire (312-63 ... Josef W. Meri, Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia (Taylor ...20 KB (2,826 words) - 18:38, 22 November 2023
- plain (the home of ancient Egyptian civilization). This characterization ... who came into contact with it during the Hellenistic period—most notably ...29 KB (4,585 words) - 10:05, 26 January 2023
- ). Luke wrote for the "Hellenistic world." ===Greek=== Most scholars believe that the Gospel of Luke was written originally in Greek ...37 KB (5,253 words) - 12:12, 24 January 2023
- elements with a mood derived from the Hellenistic model of Heliodorus. A ... *Hale, John. The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance. New York: ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 03:48, 24 November 2022
- the highest achievement of Persian civilization, constituting the last ... could rival Sassanid society and civilization. The amount of scientific ...72 KB (11,035 words) - 16:49, 23 December 2022
- signifying the place where Western civilization touched base with African ... of the most interesting sections of the Hellenistic city, including the palace ...24 KB (3,570 words) - 06:37, 20 July 2023
- Ghassulian phase led to the Canaanite civilization, the economy of which ... and Syria. Parts of the Canaanite urban civilization were destroyed around ...86 KB (12,843 words) - 06:24, 18 November 2022
- in India, known as the Indus Valley Civilization (or, the Harappan Civilization ... The civilization is noted for its cities built of brick, road-side ...64 KB (9,559 words) - 13:04, 4 March 2024
- which date back to Phrygian, Persian, and Hellenistic periods. The mounds were built between the eighth century B.C.E. and third or second century ...28 KB (4,185 words) - 18:43, 2 May 2023
- widely referred to as the cradle of Western Civilization ... standing as an epic landmark of western civilization. The city has also a vast ...45 KB (6,393 words) - 18:55, 19 August 2023
- a belief imported from Mesopotamia into Hellenistic Egypt, Bill Arnett, [http://www.nineplanets.org/days.html Appendix 5: Planetary Linguistics ...37 KB (5,416 words) - 07:49, 24 November 2022
- for the first time demonstrated that civilization did not begin and end ... Beck suggests a connection through the Hellenistic kingdoms (as Cumont ...32 KB (4,834 words) - 11:13, 10 March 2023
- wiped out the entire human race and its civilization, as the Bible teaches ... * Sarton, George. Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three ...50 KB (7,876 words) - 00:06, 5 March 2024
- B.C.E.). The region was part of the Mannaean civilization, an ancient people of unknown origin, who lived in the territory of present-day Iran, around ...32 KB (4,526 words) - 01:09, 11 November 2022
- Seleucid Empire, and even farther to Hellenistic kingdoms of the Mediterranean. much influenced by the more advanced civilization of India, variously adopted ...93 KB (13,393 words) - 18:33, 22 November 2023
- after his spiritual conversion from his Hellenistic upbringing and education ... *Cahill, Thomas. How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story ...65 KB (10,156 words) - 11:55, 9 May 2024
- A miracle (from Latin: miraculum, "something wonderful") refers to an act or event that goes against the ordinary laws of physics, ...43 KB (6,326 words) - 11:08, 10 March 2023
- Hesperos (the star of the dusk)—by Hellenistic times, it was realized ... . Venus was important to the Mayan civilization, who developed a religious ...45 KB (7,026 words) - 17:37, 3 May 2023
- agreements became more common into the Hellenistic era, but it may be that ... * Braudel, Fernand. Civilization and Capitalism. (originally published ...50 KB (7,650 words) - 14:57, 27 April 2023
- divided into a number of small Hellenistic kingdoms (including Bithynia, Cappadocia, Pergamum, and Pontus), all of which had succumbed to Rome ...58 KB (8,535 words) - 00:22, 3 May 2023
- cultural icon of Byzantine and Eastern Orthodox civilization. ... (1574|1595) imported two large alabaster Hellenistic urns from Pergamon (Bergama ...227 KB (32,955 words) - 20:31, 5 May 2024
- C.E., Greek merchants brought classical civilization to the trade emporiums ... centuries C.E., the Bosporan Kingdom, a Hellenistic polity which succeeded ...137 KB (20,217 words) - 18:16, 22 December 2022