Hellenistic world

Hellenistic world

Вестминстерский словарь теологических терминов. - М.: "Республика". . 2004.

Игры ⚽ Нужна курсовая?

Смотреть что такое "Hellenistic world" в других словарях:

  • Hellenistic religion — Introduction       any of the various systems of beliefs and practices of eastern Mediterranean peoples from 300 BC to AD 300.       The period of Hellenistic influence, when taken as a whole, constitutes one of the most creative periods in the… …   Universalium

  • Hellenistic Age — In the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East, the period between the death of Alexander the Great (323 BC) and the conquest of Egypt by Rome (30 BC). Alexander and his successors established Greek monarchies that controlled the area from… …   Universalium

  • Hellenistic civilization — This article focuses on the cultural aspects of the Hellenistic age; for the historical aspects see Hellenistic period. Hellenistic civilization represents the zenith of Greek influence in the ancient world. After the conquest of the Persian… …   Wikipedia

  • Hellenistic art — The art of the Hellenistic period has long been the victim of the relative disdain attached to the period. Cessavit deinde ars ( then art disappeared ) remarks Pliny the Elder in his Natural History (XXXIV, 52), after having described the… …   Wikipedia

  • Hellenistic-era warships — The famous 2nd century BC Nike of Samothrace, standing atop the prow of an oared warship, most probably a trihemiolia. From the 4th century BC on, new types of oared warships appeared in the Mediterranean Sea, superseding the trireme and… …   Wikipedia

  • World language — A world language is a language spoken internationally which is learned by many people as a second language. A world language is not only characterized by the number of its speakers (native or second language speakers), but also by its… …   Wikipedia

  • Hellenistic astrology — is a tradition of horoscopic astrology that was developed and practiced in Hellenistic Egypt and the Mediterranean, whose texts were written in Greek (or sometimes Latin), sometime around the late 2nd or early 1st century BCE. [ See David Pingree …   Wikipedia

  • Hellenistic Judaism — was a movement which existed in the Jewish diaspora before the Siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD, that sought to establish a Hebraic Jewish religious tradition within the culture and language of Hellenism.The major literary product of the contact of… …   Wikipedia

  • Hellenistic philosophy — is the period of Western philosophy that was developed in the Hellenistic civilization following Aristotle and ending with Neoplatonism.Hellenistic schools of thoughtPlatonismPlatonism is the name given to the philosophy of Plato, which was… …   Wikipedia

  • Hellenistic biological sciences — R.J.Kankinson The five centuries that separate Aristotle’s death in 322 BC from Galen’s ascendancy in Rome in the latter part of the second century AD were fertile ones for the biological sciences, in particular medicine. Nor is the period solely …   History of philosophy


Поделиться ссылкой на выделенное

Прямая ссылка:
Нажмите правой клавишей мыши и выберите «Копировать ссылку»