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US
/ˌhɛɫəˈnɪstɪk/
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ADJECTIVE
- relating to or characteristic of the classical Greek civilization
How To Use Hellenistic In A Sentence
- We know from palynological evidence that farmers already inhabited the valley below the city around 4200 B.C., yet the oldest surface finds in the area were an Early Bronze Age ax and a pre-Hellenistic sherd in the fortress dominating the city. Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Conclusions: Urban Development
- No Hellenistic poet or philosopher quoted it[Sentence dictionary], although modern scholars have sometimes deluded themselves on this subject.
- Hellenistic literature displayed (sometimes in one and the same work) a mandarin artificiality full of recondite, learned allusions and a lively, realistic interest in everyday life.
- It's typical of Hellenistic inscriptions, you see, the letter forms.
- We have already observed that during the time of Hellenistic Greek, the middle voice form was losing ground to the passive.
- His fables, written in iambic senarii, consist of beast-tales based largely on ‘Aesop’, as well as jokes and instructive stories taken not only from Hellenistic collections but also from his own personal experience.
- Hellenistic and Roman times, “lyric poetry” meant poetry, whether monodic or choric, (originally) sung; it did not include elegy or iambics. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- In the other two are ancient vases, lecythi, statuettes and other Mycenaean, Geometrical, Corinthian, Boeotian, Attican and Hellenistic archaeological finds, on loan from the Archaeological Museum.
- In many ways the Aphrodisians were the direct descendants of Hellenistic and, more specifically, Pergamene sculpture.
- A whole group of young poets, the so-called ‘neoterics’, shared the same rejection of traditional norms and the same search for new forms and content, and, as in their lifestyle, Hellenistic culture provided the most important.