At first relations between the Seleucids and the Jews were cordial, but the attempt of Antiochus IV Epiphanes ( 174 – 163 ) to impose Hellenic culture sparked a national rebellion, which ended in the expulsion of the Syrians and the establishment of an independent Jewish kingdom under the Hasmonean dynasty.

During this time, Jews have experienced slavery, anarchic and theocratic self-government, conquest, occupation, and exile ; in the Diasporas, they have been in contact with and have been influenced by ancient Egyptian, Babylonian, Persian, and Hellenic cultures, as well as modern movements such as the Enlightenment ( see Haskalah ) and the rise of nationalism, which would bear fruit in the form of a Jewish state in the Levant.

In this view, it was only by the Hellenic period that most Jews came to believe that their god was the only god, and that the notion of a clearly bounded Jewish nation identical with the Jewish religion formed.

According to the Liber Pontificalis, he came from a family of Hellenic Jewish origin.

The lands of the former Kingdom of Israel and Kingdom of Judah ( c. 930 BCE – 586 BCE ), had been occupied in turn by Assyria, Babylonia, the Achaemenid Empire, and Alexander the Great's Hellenic Macedonian empire ( c. 330 BCE ), although Jewish religious practice and culture had persisted and even flourished during certain periods.

: The official ideology of the Nicene Empire was one of reconquest and militarism which was not to be seen in later 14th century Palailogan rhetoric. The ideology which characterized 13th century Nicaea was that of the continued significance of Constantinople, and the hope to recapture it, an ideology drawing less on claims of political universalism or Hellenic nationalism, than on Old Testament ideas of Jewish providence.

Dillon expresses the concept that pleroma is a Gnostic adaptation of Hellenic ideas since before Philo there is no Jewish tradition that accepts that the material world or cosmos was based on an ideal world that exists as well.

The Divine Names, the classic treatise by Pseudo-Dionysius, defines the scope of traditional understandings in Western traditions such as Hellenic, Christian, Jewish and Islamic theology on the nature and significance of the names of God.

Word reached Maccabeus that Gorgias was leading 5, 000 troops on a march against his camp and was planning to surprise the Jewish rebels in a night-time attack, Judas abandoned his camp and led his forces to Emmaus, to attack the Hellenic base camp that remained there.

A disciple of these renowned Jewish scholars, Abravanel was also influenced by the Hellenic spirit of the Renaissance.

Throughout history, in eras and places as diverse as the ancient Hellenic world, in Europe before and after the Age of Enlightenment, in Al-Andalus, North Africa and the Middle East, in India and China, and in the contemporary United States and Israel, Jewish communities have seen the development of cultural phenomena that are characteristically Jewish without being at all specifically religious.

We can therefore see a very heavy influence on Hellenic, Jewish, Christian and even Asian beliefs on Christinaity, Gnosticism, Mandaeism and Manichaeism.

Having already acculturated various aspects of Hellenic culture, ancient writers and up through the 17th century such as Francis Bacon and other Renaissance writers called them " Gallo-Graeci ", " Gauls settled among the Greeks " and the country " Gallo-Graecia ", as had the 3rd century AD Latin historian Justin.

As such, various modern scholars have begun to apply the term to three groups of separate faiths: Historical Polytheism ( such as Celtic polytheism, Norse Paganism, the Cultus Deorum Romanorum and Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism also called Hellenismos ), Folk / ethnic / Indigenous religions ( such as Chinese folk religion and African traditional religion ), and Neopaganism ( such as Wicca and Germanic Neopaganism ).

Plutarch provides the most evocative version of this story: But when Egypt revolted with Athenian aid ... and Cimon's mastery of the sea forced the King to resist the efforts of the Hellenes and to hinder their hostile growth ... messages came down to Themistocles saying that the King commanded him to make good his promises by applying himself to the Hellenic problem ; then, neither embittered by anything like anger against his former fellow-citizens, nor lifted up by the great honor and power he was to have in the war, but possibly thinking his task not even approachable, both because Hellas had other great generals at the time, and especially because Cimon was so marvelously successful in his campaigns ; yet most of all out of regard for the reputation of his own achievements and the trophies of those early days ; having decided that his best course was to put a fitting end to his life, he made a sacrifice to the gods, then called his friends together, gave them a farewell clasp of his hand, and, as the current story goes, drank bull's blood, or as some say, took a quick poison, and so died in Magnesia, in the sixty-fifth year of his life ... They say that the King, on learning the cause and the manner of his death, admired the man yet more, and continued to treat his friends and kindred with kindness.

Early examples of the Doric order include the temples at Paestum in southern Italy, a region called Magna Graecia, which was settled by Greek colonists and retained a strongly Hellenic culture.

This gun was used also by the Hellenic ( Greek ) Army in Ipirus ( Pindos mountains ) in the Greek-Italian war from October 1940-Spring 1941. It was used in conjunction with the 75 mm mle. 19 of 7, 5 cm caliber as they called it.

Greek religion has experienced a number of revivals, in the arts, humanities and spirituality of the Renaissance as well as with the contemporary Hellenic Reconstructionism, or " Hellenismos " as it is sometimes called ( a term first used by the last pagan Roman emperor Julian the Apostate ).

The Greco-Persian Wars ( also often called the Persian Wars ) were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire of Persia and city-states of the Hellenic world that started in 499 BC and lasted until 449 BC.

These aircraft are called F-16C / D Block 52 + Advanced, but in Hellenic Air Force are known as F-16 Block 52M ( due to improved computing power for mission computer MMC ).

This fashion-conscious suburb is known in Greece for its upmarket cafes, well-known restaurants, boutiques and cosmopolitan summer clubs ; Glyfada has also been called " Knightsbridge-on-Sea ", " Hellenic Hamptons ", or the " Beverly Hills of Greece ".

" I declare that I do not share the point of view of the Hellenic government that, according to the constitution, I am today called upon to ascend the throne.

The Greek historian Thucydides, for example, identified the wars of the fifth century BC in the Hellenic world as a constitutional struggle between the hegemons Athens and Sparta, which he called the Peloponnesian War.

Firmans were gathered in codes called " kanun " ( from the Hellenic word kanon ( κανών ) meaning rule or rules, as well as the Arabic word qanun ( قانون ‎) also meaning rule or law ).

Originating in Thessaly, a part of which was called Aeolis, the Aeolians often appear as the most numerous amongst the other Hellenic tribes of early times.

* A sibling language of Greek within Indo-European, Macedonian and Greek forming two subbranches of a Greco-Macedonian subgroup within Indo-European ( sometimes called " Hellenic "), suggested by Joseph ( 2001 ), Georgiev ( 1966 ) and others.

In the late 1990s to early 2000s, a club called Endsleigh, later known as EFC Cheltenham, played in the Hellenic Football League.

By the Hellenic Parthian era ( 250 BCE – 226 CE ), Zoroastrianism had in fact two kinds of places of worship: One, apparently called bagin or ayazan, sanctuaries dedicated to a specific divinity, constructed in honor of the patron saint / angel of an individual or family and included an icon or effigy of the honored.

Numenius called Plato the " Atticizing Moses ," i. e., that Plato was the Hellenic Moses.

The station opened here was called Hellenic but this was later changed to Meadowbank, after the Meadowbank Estate.

** One of five ships ( the first constructed in 1835 ) of the Hellenic Navy named after him

* King Perseus asks the Seleucid King Antiochus IV to join forces with him against the danger that Rome presents to all of the Hellenic monarchs.

Of the people asked, only 23 % had a positive view of George Papandreou, while 73 % had a negative opinion ; ranking him lower than any other leader of a party in the Hellenic Parliament.

Demosthenes held no official position at the time, but was a strategos-elect for the Hellenic year that would begin in midsummer 425, and the two generals had been instructed to allow him to use the fleet around the Peloponnese if he wished.

As a historian of myth as it was embedded in the details of Hellenic culture, its " characteristic social existence " as he put it, Kerényi opposed his " differentiated thinking about the concrete realities of human life " with the " summary thinking " that represented for him the influence of Sir James Frazer on the study of the peoples of antiquity and Greek religion especially.

The prime minister also announced that the government had sent a message to Prince Paul offering him its sympathy on the death of his elder brother, and informing him of his succession to the Hellenic throne.

The Hellenic Navy named a cruiser, the Navarchos Miaoulis, after him in 1879.

The Hellenic Air Force and Navy, both strongly royalist and not involved in the junta, immediately declared for him and mobilised.

In addition, a Greek cruiser, the flagship of the Hellenic Navy, which was constructed largely with funds ( 2, 500, 000 Gold francs ) provided for under his will, was named after him.

Michael Psellus thought it a compliment when Emperor Romanus III praised him for being raised " in the Hellenic way " and a weakness for Emperor Michael IV for being completely devoid of a Hellenic education, while Anna Comnena claimed that she had " carried the study of Hellenic to the highest pitch ".

There is a Homeric hymn to Poseidon, who was the protector of many Hellenic cities, although he lost the contest for Athens to Athena.

Historically, Europe has always been a mixture of Latin, Slavic, Germanic, Uralic, Celtic, Hellenic, Illyrian, Thracian and other cultures influenced by the importation of Hebraic, Christian, Muslim and other belief systems ; although the continent was supposedly unified by the super-position of Imperial Roman Christianity, it is accepted that geographic and cultural differences continued from antiquity into the modern age.

This would enable contracted Farnborough players to play reserve team football, although the team will remain in the Hellenic Football League.

The main television station based in Komotini is R Channel although other stations broadcast from the city, namely Delta from neighbouring Alexandroupoli and ET3 ( the northern branch of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation ) from Thessaloniki.

When Christopher came of age he joined the Hellenic Army, although apparently he would much rather have rather studied the piano.