Example sentences for: hellenistic

How can you use “hellenistic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • His rise to power ushered in the Hellenistic period.

  • The genre changed to pastoral: Tarzan and Jane became the equivalents of the innocent shepherds and shepherdesses of Hellenistic Greek and Renaissance pastoral fiction, striving to preserve their natural idyll from corruption by civilization.

  • Jerusalem submitted peaceably to the rule of the Greeks in 332 b.c. under Alexander the Great and, subsequently, to his Hellenistic successors as well as the Egyptian Ptolomeys and the Syrian Seleucids.

  • Simply styled male and female figures (kouros and kore) of the Achaiac Age (seventh–fifth century b.c.) give way to more ornate and literal human forms as you walk through the collection into the Classical Age and then on to the Hellenistic and Roman eras.

  • Hellenistic and Oriental influences were most evident in religion.


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