At a time when the passage of time was dictated by the movement of the sun and the seasons, the introduction of “clock time” ...

Hellenization under Alexander the Great saw many people assimilated into Greek culture, including the Hellenistic Jews.

The language and culture of the Hellenistic world was Greek. That became the lingua franca of all of these subject peoples. It was to that world what English is to the modern world in many ways ...

Later, Jews were exposed to Hellenistic [meaning the language and manner of the Greeks] tendencies. Despite the strength of ...

Greece and Ptolemaic Egypt serve as case studies, in which there was a seamless transition - out of phase - from Macedonian to Roman xenocracy; both areas changed their overlords in the 2nd century ...

Alexander the Great is one of the legendary conquerors of ancient history who sparked the imagination of generations of ...

The exhibition features necklaces, sculpted rings, earrings, pins, and tools from the Hellenistic goldsmithing tradition ...

The second volume contains a commentary on the text and Greek and English indexes. The assignment of many of the epigrams to the Hellenistic period depends on the assumption that they were included in ...

118, Issue. 3, p. 351. Wonder and wonders constituted a central theme in ancient Greek culture. In this book, Jessica Lightfoot provides the first full-length examination of its significance from ...