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The Seleucids exerted their influence through Hellenization, the spread of Greek art, architecture, and religion.

From National Geographic • Dec. 7, 2023

The Apocrypha's texts make it clear that the battle against Hellenization was in fact a kulturkampf among the Jews themselves.

From Slate • Nov. 28, 2013

We are to-day in the midst of a movement likely to surpass the period of Hellenization in duration and extent.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul

Aphrodite exhibits more clearly than any other deity the process or the direction of the Hellenization of a foreign god.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris

The compulsory Hellenization by Antiochus aroused the best elements of the Jewish nation, which had seemed likely to lose by a gradual assimilation its adherence to pure monotheism and the Mosaic law.

From Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria by Bentwich, Norman