The ethnogenesis of the Greek nation is marked, according to some scholars, by the first Olympic Games in 776 BC, when the idea of a common Hellenism among the Greek-speaking tribes was first translated into a shared cultural experience and Hellenism was primarily a matter of common culture.

The attempt to " ground the meaning relations constitutive of the world in an instance that itself lies outside all relationality " was referred to by Heidegger as logocentrism, and Derrida argues that the philosophical enterprise is essentially logocentric, and that this is a paradigm inherited from Judaism and Hellenism.

Hellenismos, or Hellenism, is the Hellenic religion, a traditional polytheistic religion and way of life, revolving around the Greek Gods, primarily focused on the Twelve Olympians, and embracing ancient Hellenic values and virtues.

According to Joseph P. Schultz, modern scholarship " considers the Maccabean revolt less as an uprising against foreign oppression than as a civil war between the orthodox and reformist parties in the Jewish camp ", while John J. Collins writes that while the civil war between Jewish leaders led to the king's new policies, it is wrong to see the revolt as simply a conflict between Hellenism and Judaism, since " The revolt was not provoked by the introduction of Greek customs ( typified by the building of a gymnasium ) but by the persecution of people who observed the Torah by having their children circumcised and refusing to eat pork.

If the older Halakhah is to be considered as the product of the internal struggle between Phariseeism and Sadduceeism, the Halakhah of Akiva must be conceived as the result of an external contest between Judaism on the one hand and Hellenism and Hellenistic Christianity on the other.

Called the " founder of historical philology ", Bentley is credited with the creation of the English school of Hellenism.

Hellenism is the traditional designation for the Greek culture of the Roman Empire in the days of Jesus, Paul, and for centuries after.

Greco-Buddhism is the cultural merging between the cultures of Hellenism and Buddhism, which developed over a period of close to eight centuries in Central Asia between the 4th century BCE and the 5th century CE.

It is in this sense that Mathew Arnold ( 1869 ) contrasts Hebraism with Hellenism.

Abrahams states that the use of benzoin in the Biblical incense is not inconceivable since Syro-Arabian tribes maintained extensive trade routes prior to Hellenism.

But ERA 5 is mainly characterized by programmes that bring it to direct contact with Hellenism through telephone calls and letters.

In modern Greek usage, the term has the connotation of " father of the nation ", and is widely used as an epithet applied to the most influential political leaders of modern Hellenism: Eleftherios Venizelos, Archbishop Makarios ( for Cyprus ), and sometimes Konstantinos Karamanlis.

What is noteworthy of these religions is that they both included a high degree of overlap of Western culture ideals inspired by Hellenism and mostly Jewish histories.

His reign is marked by a decided reaction against Hellenism.

Today, the party's official stance on religion is that the Byzantine Empire protected Hellenism and the ancient Greek pagan spirit, resulting in that the Greek Orthodox Christianity captured and keeps the indigenous spirituality of the Greeks alive.

The Greek diaspora, also known as Hellenic diaspora or the diaspora of Hellenism, is a term used to refer to the communities of Greek people living outside the traditional Greek homelands, but more commonly in southeast Europe and Asia Minor.

The Guardians of Hellenism ( Greek: Έλληνες Ακρίτες ) is a series of albums featuring recordings of traditional Greek music by region, performed by the Hellenic Music Archives Ensemble.

Roman Greece is the period of Greek history ( of Greece proper ; as opposed to the other centers of Hellenism in the Roman world ) following the Roman victory over the Corinthians at the Battle of Corinth in 146 BC until the reestablishment of the city of Byzantium and the naming of the city by the Emperor Constantine as the capital of the Roman Empire ( as Nova Roma, later Constantinople ) in 330 AD.

However the factuality of this statement is disputed since the quote comes from the Church Fathers who had motive to connect Greek and Biblical wisdom ; this would justify the superiority of Christianity over Hellenism because Moses predates Plato-thus the original source of this wisdom is the root of Christianity and not Hellenistic culture.

The choice of coinage is a declaration of Hellenism.

The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.

And all the time, she had the heat of hatred in her, like charcoal that is burning on its under side, but not visibly.

`` I'd like to know just which it is that those guys don't understand, the liquor or automobiles ''.

The long-settled areas of states like Virginia and South Carolina developed the ante-bellum culture to its richest flowering, and there the memory is more precious, and the consciousness of loss the greater.

Down through the axis of the bridge there is a long diminishing vista like a visual echo of piers and arches, while the vaults fronting upstream and down frame the sunset and sunrise, the mountains and river pools.

Yet within this limitation there is an astonishing variety: design as intricate as that in the carpet or miniature, with the melodic line like the painted or woven line often flowing into an arabesque.

For the beatnik, like the hipster, is in opposition to a society that is based on the repression of the sex instinct.

It is therefore not surprising that they resist the lure of marriage and the trap of domesticity, for like cats they are determined not to tame their sexual energy.

Jazz, like sex, is a mystique.

Hieronymus, like Piepsam, makes his protest quite in vain, and his rejection, though not fatal, is ridiculous and humiliating ; ;

He is, like Phillip Marlowe, too alienated to be reliable.

A point like p gets information directly from n, but all information beyond n is indirectly relayed through n.

Furthermore, the network in Figure 3 is only the basic net through which other networks pertaining to logistics and the like are interlaced.

But is that not like going to a chemistry laboratory and blindly pouring out liquids and powders from an array of bottles and then, after stirring, expecting a new wonder drug inevitably to result??

The making of distinctions, like the perception of the great distinctions made, is an inordinately difficult business.

Bertha Szold was more like Meg, the eldest March girl, who `` learned that a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it, not as a queen, but a wise wife and mother ''.

But I insist upon believing that even when it is lost, it may, like paradise, be regained.

`` What I'd like you to comment on is the criticism leveled at your Committee ''.

I would like to straighten out a misconception about the dress Mrs. Coolidge is wearing in this painting.

Now an abiding difficulty of paragraphs like the foregoing is that they appear to preach ; ;

Thus Burns's `` My love is like a red, red rose '' and Hopkins' `` The thunder-purple sea-beach, plumed purple of Thunder '' although clearly intelligible in content, hardly present ideas of the sort with which we are here concerned.

Again, Henley's attitude of defiance which colors his ideal of self-mastery is far from characteristic of a Stoic thinker like Marcus Aurelius, whose gentle acquiescence is almost Christian, comparable to the patience expressed in Milton's sonnet on his own blindness.

In his letter mentioning Shakespeare on January 24, 1597/8, Sturley asked Quiney especially that `` theare might ( be ) bi Sir Ed. Grev. some meanes made to the Knightes of the Parliament for an ease and discharge of such taxes and subsedies wherewith our towne is like to be charged, and I assure u I am in great feare and doubte bi no meanes hable to paie.