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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 (1,801 words) - 12:38, 5 May 2024
- 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
- . Under the Ptolemaic dynasty, this deity became Serapis, a Hellenistic ... The worldview engendered by ancient Egyptian religion was uniquely ...21 KB (3,246 words) - 06:01, 11 August 2023
- originated in the selection of seven Hellenistic Jewish Christians of Jerusalem ... the one hand, and "Grecian" or Hellenistic Jewish members of the ...20 KB (3,190 words) - 19:56, 22 May 2020
- Category:Philosophy and religion 44649130 ...7 KB (941 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- *Boardman, John. The Oxford History of Greece & the Hellenistic ... category:Philosophy and religion Category:Biography 83089926 ...6 KB (970 words) - 06:15, 11 January 2024
- tragedy has its roots in Ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology. Greek ... == Hellenistic Age == By 338 B.C.E. all of the Greek city-states except ...25 KB (4,056 words) - 17:49, 13 November 2021
- developed into the "official state religion of the Ptolemaic dynasty ... * Bingen, Jean, and Roger S. Bagnall. 2007. Hellenistic Egypt: monarchy ...22 KB (3,249 words) - 23:34, 2 December 2022
- on Mycenae began to become more Hellenistic in nature. The settlement ... Mycenae and expelled the inhabitants. In Hellenistic and Roman times, the ruins ...18 KB (2,715 words) - 22:40, 10 November 2022
- Aristobulus of Paneas (c. 160 B.C.E.) was among the earliest Hellenistic ... philosophical conceptions with the Jewish religion. Aristobulus used an allegorical ...7 KB (1,086 words) - 06:27, 12 August 2023
- The precursor to the almanac was the Hellenistic astronomical and ... and business, health and medicine, religion, mass media, transportation ...14 KB (2,079 words) - 08:15, 23 July 2023
- *Long, A.A. and David N. Sedley, eds. The Hellenistic Philosophers ... Category:Philosophy and religion Category:Biography 51559967 ...13 KB (2,126 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- were drawn from various parts of the Hellenistic cultural world and suggest ... document in the history of freedom of religion), some members found sanctuary ...16 KB (2,354 words) - 07:13, 14 June 2023
- He developed a fideist concept of religion, admitting skepticism while ... to prove that there is a God and a true religion, that the true religion ...13 KB (1,975 words) - 05:20, 24 November 2022
- Societies of Christians in Hellenistic Greece and Roman Greece, prior ... Monster," the deity of a parody religion called The Church of the ...11 KB (1,707 words) - 21:21, 7 September 2023
- had preserved certain features of Hellenistic art that had disappeared ... Like in other illuminated manuscripts, the central theme is religion ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 04:56, 16 December 2022
- stood at his home, in the Agora of Hellenistic Sikyon, and the following ... Category: Philosophy and religion Category: Religion 161930753 ...9 KB (1,381 words) - 22:33, 4 October 2022
- movement in antiquity and its legacy. Hellenistic culture and society, 23 ... Category:philosophy and religion 78203755 ...9 KB (1,363 words) - 04:33, 6 October 2022
- *Miller, J., and B. Inwood. 2003. Hellenistic and Early Modern Philosophy ... category:Philosophy and religion Category:philosophy 53294223 ...9 KB (1,293 words) - 06:55, 12 January 2024
- India and Buddhist contact with Hellenistic culture in the Indo-Greek ... Gupta mannerism and Classical influence, Hellenistic or possibly even Greco-Roman. ...37 KB (5,547 words) - 18:34, 22 November 2023
- of the schools of thought in the Hellenistic era, including Neopythagoreanism ... E. baptism, he wrote his treatise On True Religion and was still thinking of ...11 KB (1,605 words) - 16:18, 11 November 2022
- ancient Eastern traditions blend with Hellenistic architecture. ... Petra must have assumed the aspect of a Hellenistic city. In the reign of ...24 KB (3,829 words) - 14:47, 28 March 2023
- medicine, psychology, ethics, religion, political science and several ... Category:Philosophy and religion 56114189 ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 18:21, 30 April 2023
- **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 the Hellenistic period in ancient Greece, there were two prominent ... Sedley. (trans. and eds.). (1987) The Hellenistic Philosophers, Vol. I. ...17 KB (2,610 words) - 15:53, 11 August 2023
- does not fit the form of a traditional Hellenistic epistle, lacking a proper ... Category:Religion Category:philosophy and religion 160399366 ...18 KB (2,863 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- ancestry, since although he was a Jew by religion, he was an Idumean by ancestry. ... For Hellenistic Jews the marriage may not have been extremely controversial ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 11:05, 22 January 2024
- == Hellenistic period == the third century C.E. is known as the Hellenistic period. In the early half ...29 KB (4,278 words) - 04:19, 31 January 2023
- avoidance of alcohol, and devotion to a religion that rejected sacrifices ... of a universal, non-denominational religion compatible with Reason. ...13 KB (2,013 words) - 15:49, 11 August 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
- tradition, took on an increasingly Hellenistic quality, rejecting Jewish ... The church included both Hellenistic and non-Hellenistic Jews—Jews ...32 KB (4,998 words) - 08:45, 3 April 2024
- living at the time of the influx of Hellenistic ideas (i.e., Hellenization ... for this was not, he claims, a matter of religion. He suggests that the Hellenists ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 18:35, 22 December 2022
