Hellenism

How To Use Hellenism In A Sentence

• a long essay on Plato in a book called "Hellenism" -- very good. Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One
• Imagine the readers of Athenian newspapers in Smyrna and Thrace ... yearning to be informed of Athenian developments regarding Hellenism and the national question; imagine the reader in Thessalia turning the pages seeking news about the agricultural question, only to stumble across the minutes kept in the National Assembly on the discussion of the women's vote! Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
• Cf. Chapot, _Les destinées de l'hellénisme au delà l'Euphrate_ (_Mém.soc. antiq. de France_), 1902, pp. 207 ff. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
• The author of 2 Maccabees depicted instead a brutal civil war, an internal struggle within the Jewish community between "Judaism" and "Hellenism" -- words that he in fact coined. Shawna Dolansky: The Truth(s) About Hanukkah
• 'Hellenism' and nationality have become for him identical ideas; and when at last the hour of deliverance struck, he welcomed the Greek armies that marched into his country from the south and the east, after the fall of Yannina in the spring of 1913, with the same enthusiasm with which all the enslaved populations of native Greek dialect greeted the consummation of a century's hopes. The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey
• Hellenism, which is the principle pre-eminently of intellectual light (our modern culture may have more colour, the medieval spirit greater heat and profundity, but Hellenism is pre-eminent for light), has always been most effectively conceived by those who have crept into it out of an intellectual world in which the sombre elements predominate. The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry
• It is really from the union of Hellenism, in its breadth, its sanity of purpose, its calm possession of beauty, with the adventive, the intensified individualism, the passionate colour of the romantic spirit, that springs the art of the nineteenth century in England, as from the marriage of Faust and Helen of Troy sprang the beautiful boy Euphorion. Miscellanies
• Three are generic names, namely Hellenism, Samaritanism, and Judaism. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
• Western Europe is apt to depreciate modern 'Hellenism', chiefly because its ambitious denomination rather ludicrously challenges comparison with a vanished glory, while any one who has studied its rise must perceive that it has little more claim than western Europe itself to be the peculiar heir of ancient Greek culture. The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey
• In the early nineteenth century Greece was the focus of a cultural movement, an idealizing "Hellenism," and international political involvement in the War of Independence against the Ottoman Note: Greece