Hellenism offered a new kind of identity, no longer anchored in land, tribes, or local religion. A person could join a broader world defined by common speech, common schools, and a common literature.

Hanukkah focusses on the Maccabean struggle for freedom of religion in the second century BCE against the idolatry of the Syrian Greeks, ruled by Antiochus Epiphanes. (Natalia Ganelin / Getty Images) ...

The students at Lalor North Primary School produced a special event "Alpha to Omega", celebrating Hellenism through dance, ...

This is Hanukkah season. In Hebrew schools across the country the Hanukkah story will be told, and the story usually goes like this: The wicked king Antiochus IV Epiphanes attacked the innocent and ...

Tune in as Judy Simon retells the story of Hanukkah and the Hellenism of the Jews of those days, juxtaposed with Hellenism of today. It's a story of politics and religion, and where some Jews went ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Gilbert Murray was one of the towering figures of 20th century cultural and intellectual life, and the foremost Hellenist of his generation.

Probably the most famous living Greek is Giannis Antetokounmpo, better known as the “Greek Freak.” Not only is Antetokounmpo a celebrity athlete in the U.S., he is the face of Greece in a recent ...

Chanukah is an ideal platform to discuss Torah based concepts relating to holiness and the profane, and to address the Jewish mandate to remain a holy people. Yet the Maccabees fought for many years, ...

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