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How to pronounce hellenism in English?

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Type Words
Type of principle
Derivation hellenistic, hellenistical

Examples of hellenism

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Hellenism was spreading, an affront to Jewish culture and religious practice.
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Look for my contributions on hellenism, noteably the Seleucid Empire and the Indo-Greek kingdom.
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But everywhere and at all times, the idea of a global hellenism is prevalent in his works and his teaching.
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Apparently this Wikipedia article is under Greek invasion, like whole western culture is under influence of pan-hellenism.
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Hellenism is the traditional designation for the Greek culture of the Roman Empire in the days of Jesus, Paul, and for centuries after.
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Hellenism was the culture the rich ond sophisticated city-people liked to be proud of, but that had nothing to do with their ethnicity nor Alexanders ethnicity.
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More examples
  • The principles and ideals associated with classical Greek civilization
  • Greek: the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages
  • (hellenic) Greek: of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks or the Greek language; "Greek mythology"; "a Grecian robe"
  • (hellenistic) Hellenic: relating to or characteristic of the classical Greek civilization
  • Hellenization (or Hellenisation) is a term used to describe the spread of ancient Greek culture, and, to a lesser extent, language. It is mainly used to describe the spread of Hellenistic civilization during the Hellenistic period following the campaigns of Alexander the Great of Macedon. ...
  • Hellenism, as a neoclassical movement distinct from other Roman or Greco-Roman forms of neoclassicism emerging after the European Renaissance, is most often associated with Germany and England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. ...
  • Hellenistic civilization represents the zenith of Greek influence in the ancient world from 323 BC to about 146 BC (or arguably as late as 30 BC); note, however that Koine Greek language and Hellenistic philosophy and religion are also indisputably elements of the Roman era until Late Antiquity. ...
  • Any of the characteristics of ancient Greek culture, civilization, principles and ideals, including humanism, reason, the pursuit of knowledge and the arts, moderation and civic responsibility; The culture and civilization of the Hellenistic period; The admiration for and adoption of ancient ...
  • (Hellenistic) Of or relating to the period of the Greek culture, history, or art after the death of Alexander the Great (323 B.C.) to the defeat of Cleopatra and Mark Antony by Octavian (31 B.C.)--though this end-point is often debated; Of or relating to a Hellenist