51 examples of hellenistic in sentences

But hitherto this desperate gambling with life had been carried on in Egypt and Syria; the play had been with Hellenistic pawnsEgyptian or Syrian princes; the last Cleopatra came to play with Roman pieces, easier apparently to move than the others, but implying higher stakes, greater glory in the victory, greater disaster in the defeat.

" [Footnote 71: There was no Egyptian feature in this show, which was purely Hellenistic.]

But if these Hellenistic queens knew how to die, they knew not how to live.

On the Epistles of Phalaris; the next Salmasius On the Hellenistic Language."

Generally, the relations of Rome with the Hellenistic states became closer; the senate already negotiated even with Syria, and interceded with the Seleucus just mentioned on behalf of the Ilians with whom the Romans claimed affinity.

Rome and Her Dependencies All the Hellenistic states had thus been completely subjected to the protectorate of Rome, and the whole empire of Alexander the Great had fallen to the Roman commonwealth just as if the city had inherited it from his heirs.

Where the way was thus paved, the Hellenistic irreligious spirit found free course.

It could not indeed venture on open attacks, and such direct additions as were made by its means to religious conceptions e.g. the Pater Caelus formed by Ennius from the Roman Saturnus in imitation of the Greek Uranoswere, while Hellenistic, of no great importance.

In fact, if we view with an unprejudiced eye this Hellenistic literature of the sixth centurythat poetry followed out professionally and destitute of all productiveness of its own, that uniform imitation of the very shallowest forms of foreign art, that repertoire of translations, that changeling of eposwe are tempted to reckon it simply one of the diseased symptoms of the epoch before us.

From this point of view, we shall form a juster judgment of the Hellenistic literature, and particularly of the poetry, of the Romans of this period.

Athenian tribal cycles in the Hellenistic age.

FERGUSON, WILLIAM SCOTT. Athenian tribal cycles in the Hellenistic age.

CLARK, GORDON H., ed. Selections from Hellenistic philosophy.

The historic Hellenistic background of the New Testament.

The historic Hellenistic background of the New Testament, by Martin P. Nilsson.

Hellenistic Greek texts.

Vol. 1: The Hellenistic and Roman periods.

Hellenistic poetry.

Athenian tribal cycles in the Hellenistic age.

FERGUSON, WILLIAM SCOTT. Athenian tribal cycles in the Hellenistic age.

The historic Hellenistic background of the New Testament.

The historic Hellenistic background of the New Testament, by Martin P. Nilsson.

'All we, poor fellows, can do,' he added, turning to Herbert, 'is to wake the Hellenistic raptures of May Fair; and that they call fame; as much like fame as a toadstool is like a truffle.'

"It is very significant," he adds, "that among the numerous references to the ways of obtaining brides made by poets and moral philosophers, including those of the Hellenistic [Alexandrian] period, and collected by Stobaeus in chapters 70, 71, and 72 of his Florilegium, love is never mentioned among the motives of marriage choice."

CHANDLER, RICHARD, a learned Hellenistic archæologist, born in Hants; travelled in Asia Minor and Greece, along with two artists, to examine and describe the antiquities; the materials collected were published in his "Ionian Antiquities," "Travels in Asia Minor," &c. (1738-1810).

51 examples of  hellenistic  in sentences