Tag: Helladic vs. Hellenistic vs. Hellenic
HELLADIC (3000 – 1200 BCE):
A term describing Bronze Age people, events, and artifacts occurring in mainland Greece.
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HELLENISTIC (323 – 30 BCE):
A term describing Greek civilization’s history between the death of Alexander the Great and the battle of Actium when the last Hellenistic kingdom of Egypt fell to the Romans.
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HELLENIC:
A general term describing everything “Greek” in all eras. It derives from Ελλάς, the Greek name for “Greece”, which is usually transliterated in English as “Hellas”. “Ελληνικό” then becomes “Hellenic”.
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History of Greece: Bronze Age
Read more: History of Greece: Bronze AgeMinoan, Cycladic, and Helladic Cultures The Bronze Age, a period that lasted roughly two thousand years, saw major advances in social, economic, and technological advances that made Greece the hub of activity in the Mediterranean. Historians have classified…
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History of Greece: Hellenistic Period
Read more: History of Greece: Hellenistic PeriodA Cosmopolitan Era The Hellenistic Age (323-31 BCE) marks the transformation of Greek society from the localized and introverted city-states to an open, cosmopolitan, and at times exuberant culture that permeated the entire eastern Mediterranean, Egypt, and Southwest…