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 ...

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 ...

Even as late as the early Hellenistic age, there is no indication that the idea of the epigram, as a specific genre of short poems usually in elegiac couplets, ever existed. Moreover, it is probably ...

During the century following the death of Alexander the Great, hundreds of comic plays were written and produced all over the Greek world, and to this style of comedy later scholars gave the name ‘New ...

Ancient Greek kingdoms existed in China, and there was a significant spread of Hellenism in Asia, including in Japan and ...

What we know about Apollos is mostly found within the book of Acts and a few of Paul’s letters. While admittedly not as ...

Some scholars even suggested that this period may have witnessed the earliest interactions between the civilizations of ...

Hellenistic traditions. It is based on the tropical zodiac and focuses on the position of the sun at the time of a person’s ...

The ancient Greek city of Ai-Khanoum in Afghanistan was discovered in the 1960s, but its demise has captivated archaeologists ...

each adding new cultural elements to the Hellenistic culture established in the region by Alexander. Sarianidi knew that an area that had been conquered and reconquered by so many peoples was ...

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