Do you know what hellenism?

Question

do u know what this is?

Answer 1

Hellenism has to do with Greek or Roman society and culture.

Answer 2

Hellen is from Hellen of Troy, which English speakers called Helen of Troy. Hellen is from the Greek word meaning Torch or lightbearer. But in Hellenism, the word Hellen is form Hellene, meaning "Greek or from Greece". "-ism" is a "belief".

Answer 3

"Bass" sort of got it right.

Alexandria the Great and his successors thought that Greek Civilization was more advanced than the rest of the world, so they believed that it was their duty to convert the entire world to Greek Culture, Greek religion, and the Greek way of life in general.

The process of making the whole world Greek was called "Hellenism".

The religious Jews hated Hellenism, because Greeks worshiped many Gods, and they ate pork -- two things that the Jews could not do (amongst other things).

An attempt at forced Hellenism by Antiochus IV Epiphanes of the Seleucid dynasty lead to the Jews revolting against their Greek overlords around 164 BC.


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The term Hellenistic (derived from Héllēn, the Greeks' traditional self-described ethnic name) was establish by the German historian Johann Gustav Droysen to refer to the spreading of Greek culture and colonization over the non-Greek lands that were conquered by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC. The Hellenistic age marks the unification of the Greek world, sharing a common culture based on that of 5th and 4th century BC Athens, along with a fusion of Near Eastern cultures. The period is characterized by a new wave of Greek colonization which established Greek cities and Kingdoms in Asia and Africa . Those new cities were composed by Greek colonists who came from different parts of the Greek world, and not from a specific "mother city" (metropolis) as before. The main cultural centers expanded from mainland Greece, to Pergamon , Rhodes, as well as to new Greek colonies such as Antioch and Alexandria. This mixture of Greek-speakers gave birth to a common Attic based dialect, known as Hellenistic Greek, which came to absorb and replace all idioms of the Greek language.

Answer 4

The terms Hellenists, Hellenist, Hellenistic, means non-Greeks, from about the 16th century, to refer to Greek-speaking Jews, as opposed to people of Greek origin.

The words later became used to denote the later Greek age, i.e. the period after Alexander the Great. J. G. Droysen (1883) used Hellenism to mean the civilization of the Greek-speaking world after Alexander, but his definition of the period ranged up to the time of Jesus, or up to the Arab invasions. Droysen also took the word to apply to other cultures as well as the Jews. [Droysen Geschichte Alexanders des Grossen 1883]

In Israel, "Hellenist" or "Hellenizer" is used as a derogatory term for secular Jewish people. Its etymology refers to the Jewish people who assimilated during Hellenistic rule, instead of maintaining Hebrew as their language and other customs.

Answer 5

no