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Definition of Hellenism
1. Noun. The principles and ideals associated with classical Greek civilization.
Definition of Hellenism
1. n. A phrase or form of speech in accordance with genius and construction or idioms of the Greek language; a Grecism.
Definition of Hellenism
1. Noun. Any of the characteristics of ancient Greek culture, civilization, principles and ideals, including humanism, reason, the pursuit of knowledge and the arts, moderation and civic responsibility. ¹
2. Noun. The culture and civilization of the Hellenistic period. ¹
3. Noun. The admiration for and adoption of ancient Greek culture, ideas and civilization. ¹
4. Noun. The national character or culture of Greece. ¹
5. Noun. The belief in and worship of the Greek gods. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hellenism
Literary usage of Hellenism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"While new Greek cities were rising in the interior, the older hellenism of the
western coast grew in material splendour under the munificence of Hellenistic ..."
2. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"He begins by recommending Hebraism tempered and directed by hellenism; but he
ends by recommending the adoption of hellenism to an extent utterly ..."
3. The Growth and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry: Lectures Delivered in by Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1893)
"As Mr Matthew Arnold says in ' Culture and Anarchy,' the governing idea of
hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness; that of Hebraism is strictness of ..."
4. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"In none of them does there seem to be any opposition between hellenism and Romance.
The former either enters as a controlling force, arranging material ..."
5. The Silver Age of the Greek World by John Pentland Mahaffy (1906)
"CHAPTER III hellenism IN UPPER EGYPT Our knowledge of the history of remote
hellenism, ... But for centuries the Greeks, or rather the forces of hellenism, ..."
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