Hellenistic
Greek cultural period
Hellenistic describes the period of Greek civilization and culture from Alexander the Great's death (323 BCE) to Rome's conquest of Egypt (30 BCE).
During this era, Greek language, art, and ideas spread across the Mediterranean and Near East.
The term distinguishes this cosmopolitan, post-classical phase from earlier Hellenic Greek culture: Hellenistic sculpture, the Hellenistic world.
Earth-centered astronomical system
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
- AlexandriaEgyptian Mediterranean port
- AntiochAncient capital of Syria
- successionFollowing in order
satrap · regent · Cleopatra · Berenice · Ptolemy · court · deification · coinage
Macedonian empire builder
- conquestDefeating and seizing control
- empireDomain under unified control
- colonizationForeign territorial takeover
- polisGreek sovereign urban center
garrison · trade routes · Silk Road · intermarriage · urbanization · mercenaries · integration · Greco-Egyptian
Fusion of different beliefs
- OrphismGreek mystery religion
- HermeticismEsoteric Greco-Egyptian spiritual tradition
- polytheismBelief in multiple deities
- oraclesSources of divine guidance
astrology · magic · initiation · salvation · afterlife
Virtue-centered ancient philosophy
- EpicureanismPhilosophy valuing serene pleasure
- CynicismPhilosophy rejecting material desires
- NeoplatonismPlotinus's systematic mystical metaphysics
- ZenoGreek paradox thinker
Epicurus · Diogenes · ataraxia · cosmopolitanism · Garden · ethics · logos · determinism
Temple to Serapis
- papyrusAncient plant-derived writing material
- scholarshipEducational funding or erudition
- philologyStudy of historical texts
- EuclidFather of geometry
Archimedes · Eratosthenes · Apollonius · astronomy · geometry · mechanics · cartography · grammar
Ptolemaic
Earth-centered astronomical system
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
- AlexandriaEgyptian Mediterranean port
- AntiochAncient capital of Syria
succession · satrap · regent · Cleopatra · Berenice · Ptolemy · court · deification · coinage · administration
Alexander the Great
Macedonian empire builder
- conquestDefeating and seizing control
- empireDomain under unified control
- colonizationForeign territorial takeover
polis · garrison · trade routes · Silk Road · intermarriage · urbanization · mercenaries · integration · Greco-Egyptian
syncretism
Fusion of different beliefs
- OrphismGreek mystery religion
- HermeticismEsoteric Greco-Egyptian spiritual tradition
- polytheismBelief in multiple deities
oracles · astrology · magic · initiation · salvation · afterlife
Stoicism
Virtue-centered ancient philosophy
- EpicureanismPhilosophy valuing serene pleasure
- CynicismPhilosophy rejecting material desires
- NeoplatonismPlotinus's systematic mystical metaphysics
Zeno · Epicurus · Diogenes · ataraxia · cosmopolitanism · Garden · ethics · logos · determinism · pleasure
Serapeum
Temple to Serapis
- papyrusAncient plant-derived writing material
- scholarshipEducational funding or erudition
- philologyStudy of historical texts
Euclid · Archimedes · Eratosthenes · Apollonius · astronomy · geometry · mechanics · cartography · grammar · commentary
- ancient civilizationsAncient Egypt, Sumer, Ancient Greece, Aztecs, Egypt
- ancient worldancient Greece, ancient Rome, ancient Egypt, pyramids, pyramid
- art stylesimpressionism, surrealism, cubism, realism, pop art
- GreeceAcropolis, Parthenon, Athens, Greek, Zeus
- Historical AgesStone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Copper Age, Golden Age
- historical erasStone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Middle Ages, Renaissance
HellenisticClassical Greek
Ancient Hellenic language
Classical Athens · Byzantine · Mycenaean · Minoan · Medieval
Hellenisticindigenous
Originating in a region
unmixed · autochthonous · insular · parochial · native
Hellenisticbarbarian
Uncivilized, crude person
Mesopotamian · Egyptian · Semitic · Persian · Babylonian
- Hellenistic JudaismJewish faith shaped by Greek culture