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  • In Hellenistic Greece and in Imperial Rome, the ancient gods were reduced to mere civic patrons, household pets, and literary favorites.†  (source)
  • It is doubtful whether he could have bought a drink or asked the way to the Kursaal in either language, but he understood the universal Hellenistic scientific jargon, and he pawed through the heavy books, rubbing his eyes, which were filled with salty fire.†  (source)
  • He spoke of the Egyptian god Thoth, identical with the Hellenistic god Hermes the Thrice Great, and worshiped as the inventor of writing, the patron of libraries, the inspiration for all intellectual endeavor.†  (source)
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  • Some have taken their families to the other end of the island, where the Hellenic Astronomical Society has set up telescopes.†  (source)
    Hellenic = relating to or characteristic of Greece or classical Greek civilization
  • Hellenistic science, too, was influenced by a blend of knowledge from the various cultures.†  (source)
  • The last three pages of the album were devoted to boys in Greek tunics, crowned with laurel, playing among false Hellenic ruins, with chubby bottoms and heavy eyelashes—repulsive.†  (source)
  • The asceticism of the medieval saints and of the yogis of India, the Hellenistic mystery initiations, the ancient philosophies of the East and of the West, are techniques for the shifting of the emphasis of individual consciousness away from the garments.†  (source)
  • — Remark attributed to a Hellenic corporal before the walls of Troy, 1194 B. C.†  (source)
  • Belief in such "demigods" was quite widespread in Greek and Hellenistic religions.†  (source)
  • He had found me as I was leaving to play squash at the Hellenic Club.†  (source)
  • We have seen how the Hellenistic philosophers recycled the ideas of earlier philosophers.†  (source)
  • The Hellenic Dawn.†  (source)
  • In the space of three to four hundred years, the entire Hellenistic world had become Christian.†  (source)
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