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Archaeologists uncovered the ancient Greek agora of Hyllarima in Turkey, revealing ancient Hellenistic shops and public ...
Hellenistic Culture The influence of Greek language, philosophy and culture on Jews and early Christians. Harold W. Attridge: The Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament Yale Divinity School ...
Introduction. The three centuries of Greek history between the death of the Macedonian king Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E. and the rise of Augustus in Rome in 31 B.C.E. are collectively known as ...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World” exhibition includes a marble bust that portrays him with vivid realism: his fleshy neck, thick ...
Two recently discovered ancient gold rings set with garnets reveal how Greek trends and customs became part of life in Jerusalem 2,300 years ago.
Like all art, Hellenistic pottery is a reflection of its time, an invaluable resource for attempting to understand ancient life. Footnotes. On Hellenistic art, see J.J. Pollitt, Art in the Hellenistic ...
The Hellenistic Age came later, ushered in by the conquests of Alexander the Great, a Macedonian who is still remembered a bit like Napoleon, a brilliant, ruthless parvenu.
Statue of Athena Parthenos (Hellenistic period, 170 BCE), copy of a mid-5th century BBCE chryselephantine cult statue of Athena Parthenos by Pheidias, Marble (© SMB / Antikensammlung) (click to ...
Hellenistic Culture The influence of Greek language, philosophy and culture on Jews and early Christians. Harold W. Attridge: The Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament Yale Divinity School ...
Two recently discovered ancient gold rings set with garnets reveal how Greek trends and customs became part of life in Jerusalem 2,300 years ago.