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- Hellenist Parents - Group designed to discuss raising children in a Hellenic home.
- Greek Philosophy: Hellenistic Philosophy - This chapter of the learning module, Ancient Greece, briefly outlines the ideas of the major Hellenistic philosophies including Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Cynicism
- Greek Mosaics of the Classical and Hellenistic Periods - Abstracts of articles by Ruth Westgate based on a complete corpus of Classical and Hellenistic mosaics (c.400 BCE - 69 CE.)
- Judaism and Hellenism: The Encounter - A historical account of the spread of Jewish morality through Greece and surrounding cultures. How Jewish philosophers tried to reconcile Jewish morality and ethics with Hellenistic logic and rationality.
- TheStar.com: Sparta? No. This Is Madness - The battle of Thermopylae was real, but how real is 300? Ephraim Lytle, assistant professor of hellenistic history at the University of Toronto offers his view.
- Roman History - The Etruscans, Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic, Punic Wars, Conquest of the Hellenistic Empires, Republican Crisis, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Imperial Rome, 14-180 AD, Calamitious Century. 180-284 AD, the Late Empire
- Differences Between Classical and Hellenistic Greek - A short introduction by J. C. Treat, University of Pennsylvania.
- An Ancient Greek Computer - Uncovered during a dive in 1901, near the isle of Antikythera. Page describes the components of what may be an early astronomical calculator thought to come from ancient Greece. Includes photos and sketches of the mechanical device. From the Scientific American magazine.
- The Helike Project - Ongoing investigation details of a major archeological site.
- Colonization of the Black Sea by the Ancient Greeks - An article by Igor V. Bondyrev. Peculiarity of geographic position and abundance of natural resources as well as unusual situation in home policy of Greece itself, complicated by the beginning of ecological crisis in regional ecosystems in Ancient Greece, all these made separate city-states to seek new sources for revenue on the coast of the Golden Fleece.
Wikipedia Articles
- Hellenistic philosophy - Hellenistic philosophy is the period of Western philosophy that was developed in the Hellenistic civilization following Aristotle and ending with Neoplatonism.
- Hellenistic Greece - The Hellenistic period of Ancient Greek history was the period between the death of Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedon) in 323 BC and the annexation of the Greek peninsula and islands by Rome in 146 BC. Although the establishment of Roman rule did not break the continuity of Hellenistic society and culture, which remained essentially unchanged until the advent of Christianity, it did mark the end of Greek political independence.
- Hellenistic astrology - 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 - From Astral Omens to Astrology from Babylon to Bikaner, Roma: Istituto Italiano per L'Africa e L'Oriente, 1997.
- Hellenistic religion - Hellenistic religion comprises any of the various systems of beliefs and practices of the Eurasian peoples who lived under the influence of ancient Greek culture during the Hellenistic period and the Roman Empire (ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE).
- Hellenistic civilization - The term Hellenistic (derived from Héllēn, the Greeks' traditional self-described ethnic name) was established by the German historian Johann Gustav Droysen to refer to the spreading of Greek culture and colonization over the non-Greek lands that were conquered by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC. The Hellenistic age marks the unification of the Greek world, sharing a common culture based on that of 5th and 4th century BC Athens, along with a fusion of Near Eastern cultures.