How to Use Hellenistic in a Sentence
Hellenistic
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Patrons didn’t need to know this statue was gasp Hellenistic instead.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
6 Apr. 2026
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This was in response to the flood of philosophical writings in the ancient Near East and Hellenistic world.
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Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
8 Nov. 2025
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The site was founded in the late Hellenistic period, between the second and first centuries BC, when it was used as a fortress.
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Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
30 Dec. 2025
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In more recent years, though, there has been a countermovement to restore Paul to a more credible Hellenistic context.
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Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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On Alexander the Great and Hellenistic homophobia.
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Literary Hub,
13 Jan. 2026
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On Alexander the Great and Hellenistic homophobia.
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Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
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Unusually, Queen Berenice II, the wife of Hellenistic ruler Ptolemy III, appears as the face of political power.
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Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Aug. 2025
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Archaeologists have identified a cultural boundary between Japha/Nazareth and Sepphoris—the former being more exclusively Jewish with the latter more multicultural and Hellenistic.
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Literary Hub,
30 Sep. 2025
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