Hellenization
Hellenisation BrE

Hellenization during the Hellenistic period, however, had its limitations.

This tribe was under the effects of Hellenization.

It was a return to the Bible by a scribe who had seen the consequences of Hellenization.

His tactic was to outlaw Jewish practice and then mandate extreme Hellenization.

It was under Seleucid rule, however, that the effects of Hellenization became more pronounced.

The Roman period was marked by further Hellenization of the region in terms of language, economy and culture.

Another conflict was cultural, between those who favored Hellenization and those who resisted it.

The degree of Hellenization at Rhizon was very high.

In Greece, there was a government sponsored process of Hellenization [6].

The concept of Hellenization, meaning the spread of Greek culture, has long been controversial.

Hellenization became so extreme, Mazower tells us, that the city's minarets were leveled.

Problems of Hellenization of course existed everywhere.

It long resisted Hellenization, and retained its traditional Sicel character.

Furthermore, such Hellenization was accompanied by the opposite spread of Asian culture to Europe.

Judea at that time had been affected by the Hellenization begun by Alexander.

The Jews who did undergo a process of Hellenization were a minority and this "conversion" was not forced upon them by the rulers.

Strictly, it means an undoing of Hellenization: the spread of Greek culture and philosophy.

However, more recent scholarship has shown that the idea of Hellenization was illusory (and that the concept itself is seriously flawed).

Xanthos is a Greek name, acquired during its Hellenization.

He was interested in reinforcing the life of the Greek cities and extending the Hellenization of his subjects.

Hellenization produced tensions between observant Jews and their brethren who had assimilated Greek culture.

The dispute revolves around the degree of Hellenization (influence of Greek culture and thought) present in the book.

"Paul and the Hellenization of Christianity."

Greek and Roman intellectuals had to learn that in Rome Hellenization implied respect for the ruling order.

The Hellenization of the Jews in the pre-Hasmonean period was not universally resisted.

This tribe had become bilingual being under the effects of an early Hellenisation.

Hellenisation, the spread of Greek culture and language.

Full Hellenisation only took place under Ptolemaic rule.

Alexander's conquests only served to accelerate an already clear drift towards Hellenisation in Cyprus.

Before the Hellenisation of the village name in 1926, the village was locally known as Kučkoveni.

Alexander the Great's conquests started a process of Hellenisation in Egypt and Syria that continued for 1,000 years.

Hellenisation became Latinisation during the Roman period and it was applied in Antioch best.

Greek currency followed him also in his conquests, and assisted in the hellenisation of the Near East.

The patriarchate was reduced to an archbishopric, Greek replaced Slavonic in the liturgy and a process of Hellenisation began.

Susanna may have been composed around 170-130 BCE in the context of the Hellenisation struggle.

Other Muslims were attempting an even more radical Hellenisation of the Islamic God and introduced a new philosophical element into the three monotheistic religions.

Even though all of these documents were written in Slavic, John signed his name in Greek, which testifies to his Hellenisation.

Schliermacher's disciple Albrecht Ritschl (1822-89) saw the doctrine as a flagrant instance of Hellenisation.

After Alexander the Great's conquest of the country rapid Hellenisation took place in Lycia, and its culture became subsumed in the Greek.

The name Tylos is thought to be a Hellenisation of the Semitic, Tilmun (from Dilmun).

It also aims to investigate the process of Hellenisation and the influence of Phoenician and Greek occupations of western Sicily during the archaic period.

Timon is referred to by Levi by his Hebraic name, "Tevye", Timon appearing to be a Hellenisation.

Antiochus IV Epiphanes succeeded his older brother to the Seleucid throne and immediately adopted his father's previous policy of universal Hellenisation.

In the wake of Alexander's armies, a steady process of Hellenisation occurred, a culmination of the process begun centuries earlier that had so provoked Cyrus, the Persian king.

Hellenisation took root first in the densely settled coastal and lowland areas, and only really began to impinge on more backward areas such as Judea in the early 2nd century.

The Persians had not interfered with the internal affairs of the various subject-peoples of the region, but the Greeks followed a policy of deliberate Hellenisation, encouraging, although not normally enforcing, Greek culture.

The Bulgarian language was preserved as a cultural medium only in a handful of monasteries, to rise in terms of social status for the ordinary Bulgarian usually meant the process of Hellenisation.

I think Persepolis was sacked, and the post-Alexander king Antiochus Epiphanes attempted a forced Hellenisation of the Jews of Jerusalem and thereabouts that blew up on him.

The name Ptolemy spread from its Macedonian origins to enter other languages in the Middle and Near East during the Hellenisation that followed the conquest of the known world by Alexander the Great.

Since the division of Macedonia in 1913, Greece has carried out a policy of Hellenisation of the local population, forcing name changes, religious affiliation, and writings of church, frescoes and graves to Greek.