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

Greek and Roman imperialism in the Middle East and North Africa brought Jews—and later, Christians—into the intellectual sphere of Hellenism.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

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

But Hellenism in Cappadocia was for centuries to come still confined to the castles of the king and the barons, and the few towns.

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