Search results for "Hellenistic Civilization" - New World Encyclopedia
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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
