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The Hellenistic Age stretched from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE to the Roman conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt in 30 BCE. The salient features of the age were the creation of a new, syncretic culture in the Greek Middle East and the inability of the Macedonians to maintain a unified empire after Alexander’s death in 323 BCE, eventually losing ...
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The Sculpture of the Hellenistic Age
The American Journal of Philology, 1957J. H. Young, Margarete Bieber
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[Medicine in the Hellenistic age].
Medicina nei secoli, 2011The article offers a review of the main literature about the supposed existence of a 'scientific revolution' in medicine during the Hellenistic age, to conclude that, if in other scientific disciplines a strong changement of cultural patterns certainly occurred, Hellenistic medicine was not able to complete a real 'revolutionary process', abandoning ...
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Laconism in the Hellenistic Age
1991Abstract The great figures of the fourth century continued to a remarkable extent to dominate Greek intellectual history, whether in rhetoric, historiography, or political theory. One proof of this is the astonishing persistence of interest in Sparta; for the place itself, deprived of territory by Philip and defeated again under ...
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Some Inventions by Engineers of the Hellenistic Age
2016Some examples indicating the surprising level of the technical and scientific knowledge of the Hellenistic scientists and engineers are presented. The latter concern the measuring of the time, the self-propelled carts, the throwing machines and the automatic devices. Some of them, in fact, already contain the concept of automation. A brief reference is
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Crete (Iron Age to Hellenistic)
Archaeological Reports, 2013This year, the newly-published material bookends nearly a decade of archaeological work on the island with ADelt covering work on Crete from 2001 to 2004 and the second volume of Archaiologiko Ergo Kritis showcasing work in the years immediately before 2010.
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Contemplative withdrawal in the Hellenistic age
Philosophical Studies, 2007I reject the traditional picture of philosophical withdrawal in the Hellenistic Age by showing how both Epicureans and Stoics oppose, in different ways, the Platonic and Aristotelian assumption that contemplative activity is the greatest good for a human being.
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