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  • A brief period in western history, during the birth of modernity, ... Schofield, eds. The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy. Cambridge: ...
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  • as the founder of the Stoic school of Hellenistic philosophy. Born the son ... people had been murdered during an earlier period of political unrest. Followers ...
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  • also argues against any compromise with Hellenistic culture, holding not only ... historical incident to an earlier time period and added a fictitious connection ...
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  • into one satrapy. It formed part of the Hellenistic Greco-Bactrian kingdom ... ===Hellenistic period=== The Sogdian Rock or Rock of Ariamazes, a fortress ...
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  • Educated in Rome, Agrippa was a thoroughly Hellenistic Jew. After ... in Jewish religious circles for his Hellenistic lifestyle, his alleged ...
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  • Classical antiquity, era, or period is a broad term for a long period ... The Hellenistic period of Greek history was the period between the ...
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  • was one of the most popular schools of Hellenistic philosophy (together with ... number of works by Philodemus, a late Hellenistic Epicurean, and Epicurus ...
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  • texts, dating back to the early Archaic period, until the fourth century ... The other great poet of the preclassical period was Hesiod. Unlike ...
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  • The Eleusinian myths and mysteries began in the Mycenean period (c ... above ground with her mother for a similar period. This left her the choice ...
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  • is a chimera, the Ptolemaic period of Egypt's history launched ... is a chimera, the Ptolemaic period of Egypt's history can ...
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  • is interesting as the first truly "Hellenistic" state--in the sense ... too, survival over this lengthy period as a prosperous trading polity ...
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  • on them are identified with the formative period of Arab philosophy. He was ... predicates. Al-Kindī differed from the Hellenistic tradition in arguing for ...
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  • or from the Roman family of the Laërtii. The period when he lived is not exactly known, but it is supposed to have been during the reigns of Septimius ...
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  • one of the most popular schools of Hellenistic Philosophy. He taught ... one of the three leading movements of Hellenistic thought. ...
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  • had preserved certain features of Hellenistic art that had disappeared ... of human representation in the Romanesque period. An amalgam of the Carolingian ...
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  • == Hellenistic period == third century C.E. is known as the Hellenistic period. In the early half ...
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  • The Kushans adopted elements of the Hellenistic culture of Bactria ... developed Greco-Buddhism by fusing Hellenistic and Buddhist religious ...
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  • called it Ancyra; and in the classical, Hellenistic, and Byzantine periods ... the south; and Persia to the east. By that period the city took also its name ...
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  • history, such that, by the Ptolemaic period, he was "a kind of national ... C.E. Even after the inception of the Hellenistic period (323 B.C.E.), Greek ...
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  • the first century C.E., during the Roman period. Prior to that time the Pharos ... Ptolemy I of Egypt, Egypt's first Hellenistic ruler and a general of ...
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