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His men ordered to accept a measure of devotion to Greek culture
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hellenism
Word definitions for hellenism in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "idiom or expression peculiar to Greek;" see Hellenic + -ism . In sense "culture and ideals of ancient Greece," 1865.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hellenism ( Greek : Ἑλληνισμός), the Hellenic ethnic religion (Ἑλληνικὴ εθνική θρησκεία), also commonly known as Hellenismos, Hellenic Polytheism , Dodekatheism (Δωδεκαθεϊσμός), or Olympianism , refers to various religious movements that revive or reconstruct ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hellenism \Hel"len*ism\, n. [Gr. ?: cf. F. Hell['e]nisme.] A phrase or form of speech in accordance with genius and construction or idioms of the Greek language; a Grecism. --Addison. The type of character of the ancient Greeks, who aimed at culture, ...
Usage examples of hellenism.
The special quality and type of Hellenism we must deduce from similar material concerning Greeks and things Grecian.
Hebraism suggests the austere and spiritual life, Hellenism the social and sensuous life.
And on all sides it is admitted that in this region Hellenism reached nearly to perfection.
Now neither Hebraism nor Hellenism could produce the ideal man or harmoniously develop all his best powers.
We want Hellenism for knowing and enjoying, Hebraism for acting, loving, and hoping.
Splendid culture means splendid ideals, and if a nation could acquire the clear thinking of Hellenism combined with the immense moral resolve of Hebraism, that nation, knowing its aims, and making steadily towards them, would afford a spectacle of grandeur and of power such as no nation now presents.
The Hellenism that existed throughout the Middle East promoted trade and, in general, the relaxation of religious differences.
My Hellenism was cause for amusement, the more so in that ineptly I alternated between dissimulating and displaying it.
Wherever the Logos Christology had been adopted the future of Christian Hellenism was certain.
The alliance between renovated Hellenism and the Papacy was ratified a few years later, when the most intelligent of the Italian Humanists, Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini of Siena, was raised to the throne under the name of Pius II, and became the most modern of medieval Popes.
The Sadducees were inclined to Hellenism and disbelieved in life after death.