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Hellenistic

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Hellenistic, Hellenistical
1. characteristic of or relating to Greek civilization in the Mediterranean world, esp from the death of Alexander the Great (323 bc) to the defeat of Antony and Cleopatra (30 bc)

Hellenistic
Characteristic of the style of Greek art after the death of Alexander in 323 B.C.


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Taking them as a whole, he traces their history from the arrival of the Greeks through the new cities, Kroisos and the Persians, the effects of Alexander, Hellenistic growth, the effects of Antiochos III, pirates and Romans, imperial subjects, and the effects of Christianity to the end of Greek Pamphylia.
According to Ibrahim Kheir Beik, Director of Antiquities and Museums in Jableh, the building walls were built of trimmed stones in which a stone well and sewing shop dating back to the Hellenistic era from the 1st century to the 3rd century B.
The third set deals with Jesus' miracles in the Hellenistic Christian milieu, one on the miracle tradition and the divine man, another on Jesus as a miracle worker in the apocrypha and finally the function of miracles in the Greco-Roman world.
 
 
 
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