In later Hellenistic times, she even assumed the ancient role of Eileithyia in aiding childbirth.

# An ancient Greek currency unit found in many Greek city states from Classical times on, as well as in many of Alexander's successor states and South-West Asian kingdoms during the Hellenistic era.

He figures in the earliest extant cuneiform inscriptions throughout the region and was prominent from the third millennium down to Hellenistic times.

During the classical period in Greece ( 6th, 5th and 4th centuries BCE ) and in Hellenistic times, natural philosophy slowly developed into an exciting and contentious field of study.

At all times, however, through the Hellenistic periods, Roman, and throughout Western history into the present day, several of his characteristic objects are present as identification, but not always all together.

Jewish Apocalyptic literature of the Hellenistic period includes many ancient texts with narratives about Jacob, many times with details different from Genesis.

The subjects that would become the standard " Liberal Arts " in Roman and Medieval times already comprised the basic curriculum in the enkuklios paideia or " education in a circle " of late Classical and Hellenistic Greece.

However, lack of archaeological evidence for Nazareth from Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Hellenistic or Early Roman times, at least in the major excavations between 1955 and 1990, shows that the settlement apparently came to an abrupt end about 720 BC, when many towns in the area were destroyed by the Assyrians.

At Pharos — in Hellenistic times the site of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, ( in modern Greek the word still has the meaning " lighthouse )— a king of Egypt named Proteus welcomed Dionysus in the young god's wanderings.

In Hellenistic and Roman times, some Pharisees were eager proselytizers, and had at least some success throughout the empire.

The zodiacal symbols are Early Modern simplifications of conventional pictorial representations of the signs, attested since Hellenistic times.

What is notable about the Macedonian regime during the Hellenistic times is that it was the only successor state to the Empire that maintained the old archaic perception of Kingship, and never adopted the ways of the Hellenistic Monarchy.

The ancient Macedonians during the Hellenistic times were still addressing their kings in a far more casual way than the subjects of the rest of the Diadochi, and the Kings were still consulting with their aristocracy ( Philoi ) in the process of making their decisions.

As such Ionia enjoyed a great prosperity during the Hellenistic times with the notable exception of Miletus, which, being the only city of the Ionian League to deny to pay homage to Alexander, was finally leveled after a long siege at 334 BC, and never restored to its previous splendor.

The turnip was a well-established crop in Hellenistic and Roman times, which leads to the assumption that it was brought into cultivation earlier.

The Greek word synagogue came into use to describe Jewish places of worship during Hellenistic times and it, along with the Yiddish term shul, and the original Hebrew term Bet Knesset (" House of meeting ") are the terms in most universal usage.

The screw pump is commonly attributed to Archimedes on the occasion of his visit to Egypt, but this tradition may reflect only that the apparatus was unknown before Hellenistic times and introduced in his lifetime by unknown Greek engineers.

By Hellenistic times, the city had moved to a new site south of what is now Bat Galim because the port's harbour had become blocked with sand.

Despite any difficulties with Homer's description of the island, in classical and Roman times the island now called " Ithaca " was universally held to be the home of Odysseus ; the Hellenistic identifications of Homeric sites, such as the identifications of Lipari as the island of Aeolus, are usually taken with a grain of salt, and attributed to the ancient tourist trade.

It is possible however that the Doric dialect was added by editors in Hellenistic and Roman times, when the poet's home town, Rhegium, had become more Doric than it had been in the poet's own time.

In Hellenistic and Roman times Tiresias ' sex-change was embroidered upon and expanded into seven episodes, with appropriate amours in each, probably written by the Alexandrian Ptolemaeus Chennus, but attributed by Eustathius to Sostratus of Phanagoria's lost elegiac Tiresias.

Several states and provinces bearing the name of Pontus or variants thereof were established in the region in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine times.

A number of pseudepigraphal works of divination were circulated in Classical and Hellenistic times under the name Melampus.

Catullus's poetry was influenced by the innovative poetry of the Hellenistic Age, and especially by Callimachus and the Alexandrian school, which had propagated a new style of poetry that deliberately turned away from the classical epic poetry in the tradition of Homer.

Consequent discussions of Christian Gnosticism included pre-Christian religious beliefs and spiritual practices argued to be common to early Christianity, Hellenistic Judaism, Greco-Roman mystery religions, Zoroastrianism ( especially Zurvanism ), and Neoplatonism.

the 3rd century BC, and cavalry long thrusting spear was especially popular among the Hellenistic armies ' agema and line cavalry.

Hellenic-Scythian contact still focused on the Hellenistic cities and settlements of the Crimea ( especially in the Bosporan Kingdom ).

The scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria created a canon of nine lyric poets deemed especially worthy of critical study.

History shows that the early church especially in Rome, was influenced by pagan rituals and beliefs from the Roman imperial cult, Hellenistic philosophy, notably Neoplatonism, and Gnosticism.

Tyche appears on many coins of the Hellenistic period in the three centuries before the Christian era, especially from cities in the Aegean.

Depictions of Neptune in Roman mosaics, especially those of North Africa, are influenced by Hellenistic conventions.

Foucher especially considered Hellenistic free-standing Buddhas as " the most beautiful, and probably the most ancient of the Buddhas ", assigning them to the 1st century BCE, and making them the starting point of the anthropomorphic representations of the Buddha (" The Buddhist art of Gandhara ", Marshall, p101 ).

Epistles are written in strict accordance to formalized, Hellenistic tradition, especially the Pauline epistles.

For urban Greeks, especially during the Hellenistic era, Arcadia symbolized pure, rural, idyllic life, far from the city.

He also read translated books of Greek sciences and Hellenistic philosophy, especially that of Greek philosopher Aristotle.

Greek goods, especially pottery, moved along natural routes, and eventually Hellenistic influences can be observed in regularised Sicel town planning.

( 1 ) The struggle for hegemony over Italy, especially against the Samnite League ( 338 – 264 BCE ); ( 2 ) the struggle with Carthage for hegemony in the western Mediterranean Sea ( 264 – 201 BCE ); and the struggle against the Hellenistic monarchies for control of the eastern Mediterranean ( 201 – 91 BCE ).

Foucher especially considered Hellenistic free-standing Buddhas as " the most beautiful, and probably the most ancient of the Buddhas ", assigning them to the 1st century BCE, and making them the starting point of the anthropomorphic representations of the Buddha (" The Buddhist art of Gandhara ", Marshall, p101 ).

Private individuals, especially Hellenistic rulers, could also sponsor such buildings.

The sarissa, however, remained the backbone for every subsequent Hellenistic, and especially Diadochi army.

Admiration for Egypt was widespread in the Hellenistic and Roman civilizations, especially in the Neoplatonic school.

In the Hellenistic period Greek names became quite usual among the Jews, especially those of Alexander, Jason, and Antigonus.

One possibility is that the Romans did not regard this Hellenistic altar as important since it did not date from the classic epoch of Greek, especially Attic, art.

Although Ovid protests Siqua fides arti, quam longo fecimus usu, / Credite: praestabunt carmina nostra fidem (" If you trust art's promise that I've long employed / my songs will offer you their promise "), and his erotic advice indicates a supposed broad understanding of female psychology, in part he is following a literary tradition, especially the two previous exponents of the Latin love-elegy, Propertius and Tibullus, and the ( mostly lost ) erotic poetry of the Greek Hellenistic period.

Hellenistic philosophers ( viz., the Stoics and Epicurians ) diverged from the Classical Greek tradition in several important ways, especially in their concern with questions of the physiological basis of the mind.

Some proponents contend that Christianity emerged organically from Hellenistic Judaism and draws on perceived parallels between the biography of Jesus and those of Greek, Egyptian, and other gods, especially those figuring in myths about dying and rising deities.

For Hellenistic astrologers, the seventh house was in general a fortunate one, especially for benefics, but there are some difficulties which may arise from these placements because the house is " the Setting Place " or the place where the Sun falls.