Hellenism

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"The monastery's property is being seized and expropriated. This spiritual beacon of Orthodoxy and Hellenism is now facing an existential threat," he said in a statement.

From BBC • Sep. 6, 2025

In the east, Romans maintained a measured reverence for Greek culture, embracing some elements of Hellenism.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

He struggles with a physical disability and he goes to great lengths to paper over the shortcomings of a similarly disabled Ph.D. student named Charles Walker, whose subject is Shelley’s Hellenism.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 11, 2019

So although the Maccabees started as opponents of Hellenism, they soon become among its most enthusiastic admirers and adopters.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2015

The visit of the three great philosophers, Diogenes the “Babylonian,” Critolaus and Carneades in 155, was an epoch-making event in the history of Hellenism at Rome.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various