Hellenization
- a word derived from Hellenize.
Example Sentences
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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
Among the Slav upper class there was a good deal of Hellenization; to be a Greek was of much social value.
From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 by Baerlein, Henry
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
Under Rome the process of Hellenization, which the divisions and weakness of the Macedonian kingdoms had checked, went forward.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
