Hellenistic Age

Cultural  

1. The period from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 b.c. to the middle of the first century b.c. It was marked by Greek and Macedonian emigration to areas conquered by Alexander and by the spread of Greek civilization from Greece to northern India. (See Alexandria.)

---

Example Sentences

This tidal wave of wealth sloshed all around the eastern Mediterranean during the three centuries that followed, the era known today as the Hellenistic Age.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 20, 2016

An exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, “Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World,” offers what is probably a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study one essential aspect of the Hellenistic Age.

From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2015

Thousands of such beautifully detailed bronzes were created during the Hellenistic Age.

From US News • Jul. 28, 2015

The Hellenistic Age was characterized by a general increase in wealth.

From Early European History by Webster, Hutton

Almost all the writers of the Hellenistic Age agree in regarding the Sun, Moon, and Stars as gods.

From Five Stages of Greek Religion by Murray, Gilbert