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 ...

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 ...

Even as late as the early Hellenistic age, there is no indication that the idea ... Moreover, it is probably only from the end of the fourth century that we can trace a tradition of literary epigrams, ...

A crisp new rendering of the Roman poet’s poems underlines how difficult it is to fully relate all his complexities and ...

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

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 ...

Estimating the population of Ancient Greece is a complex task due to the lack of accurate historical records and the different time periods.

"Words Before Deeds," Forum. A Journal of the Foundations and Facets of Western Culture 1.2 (1998) 387-98. "Infancy Narratives and Hellenistic Lives," Forum. A Journal of the Foundations and Facets of ...

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 ...

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 ...