The rise of Macedon, from a small kingdom at the periphery of Classical Greek affairs, to one which came to dominate the entire Hellenic world ( and beyond ), occurred in the space of just 25 years, between 359 336 BC . This ascendancy is largely attributable to the personality and policies of Philip II of Macedon.
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Greek aristocratic communities, the ruling elite, traced their lineages back to the heroes of epic poetry; thus the " Catalogue ", a veritable " map of the Hellenic world in genealogical terms, " preserves much information about a complex system of kinship associations and hierarchies that continued to have political importance long after the Roman eras.
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A "'Chalcidian helmet "'or "'Chalcidian type helmet "'was a helmet made of bronze and worn by ancient warriors of the Hellenic world, especially popular in Greece in the fifth and fourth centuries BC . The helmet was also worn extensively in the Greek ( Southern ) parts of Italy in the same period.
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He published books on the balance between lore and science among the followers of Pythagoras, and more extensively on ritual and archaic cult survival, on the ritual killing at the heart of religion, on mystery religions, and on the reception in the Hellenic world of Near Eastern and Persian culture, which sets Greek religion in its wider Aegean and Near Eastern context.
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Other news agencies include regional ones ( Cretian News Agency, Aegean News ), sport-focused ( Sport Idea, Action image ), religion ( The Religious News Network ), agriculture ( Agronews Agency ), Greek diaspora ( Hellenic World, Greek American news agency, Diaspora News Agency etc . ), photography ( Inke photography agency, EPA photography agency ).
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Ancient Greek science, philosophy, democracy, architecture, literature, and art provided a foundation embraced and built upon by the Roman Empire as it swept up Europe, including the Hellenic World in its conquests in the 1st century BC . From its European and Mediterranean origins, Western civilization has spread to produce the dominant cultures of modern North America, South America, and much of Oceania, and has had immense global influence in recent centuries.
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However, Penelope Vougiouklaki, writing for the " Encyclopedia of the Hellenic World : Asia Minor " website, has asserted that Alexios had three wives : Pekai, daughter of Bekha Jaqeli, by whom he had Andronikos, Basil, and Eudokia; the daughter of Anachoutlou, ruler of the Laz people, by whom he had Michael Anachoutlou and Anna Anachoutlou; and " the otherwise unknown Sargale ", by whom he had George Achpougas.
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The list of thinkers, writers, doctors, artists, scientists, statesmen and warriors of the Hellenic World important contributions to western civilization : The statesman Solon, poets Pindar and Sappho, playwrights Sophocles, Euripedes, Aeschylus and Aristophanes, the orator Lysias, historians Herodotus and Thucydides, philosophers Zeno of Elea, Protagoras of Abdera, Empedocles of Acragas, Heraclitus, Xenophanes, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, writer and general Xenophon, physician Hippocrates, sculptor Phidias, statesman Pericles, generals Alcibiades and Themistocles and many more lived during this period.
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Ba'al Zebub was used in Hebrew as a " pun " with Ba'al Zebul, where Zebul meant " of the manor, " and in a derogatory manner Ba'al Zebub was used to offend the enemies of the Israelites . In addition to this last position, which is not supported by the versions, is the fact that it was long ago suggested that there was a relationship between the Philistine god, and cults of flies-referring to a view of them as pests, feasting on excrement-appearing in the Hellenic world, such as Zeus Apomyios or Myiagros.
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Also, most of the coins of the Greek kings in India were bilingual, written in Greek on the front and in Pali on the back ( in the Kharosthi script, derived from Aramaic, rather than the more eastern Brahmi, which was used only once on coins of Agathocles of Bactria ), a tremendous concession to another culture never before made in the Hellenic world . [ 134 ] From the reign of Apollodotus II, around 80 BC, Kharosthi letters started to be used as mintmarks on coins in combination with Greek monograms and mintmarks, suggesting the participation of local technicians to the minting process . [ 135 ] Incidentally, these bilingual coins of the Indo-Greeks were the key in the decipherment of the Kharoshthi script by James Prinsep ( 1799 1840 ) . [ 136 ] Kharoshthi became extinct around the 3rd century AD.
