Hellenistic Culture The influence of Greek language, philosophy and culture on Jews and early Christians. ... supposedly a Jewish king, would have been so willing to turn himself over, ...

Eucratides I was a monarch of the Hellenistic period who ruled the Greco-Bactrian kingdom, located in present-day Afghanistan, ... This son, Heliocles I, was the last Greek king to reign in Bactria, ...

A headless and armless small marble Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic period turned up in the trash in Thessaloniki. ... It lasted until 31 B.C.E. Hellenistic kings patronized the arts ...

Gregory Callaghan, Union College, will present "Seeking Sponsors in Hellenistic Greece: Why and How Greek Communities Embraced Attalid Patronage." At the end of the 3rd century BCE, the Aetolian ...

Jerusalem, Judea’s capital, sided with Seleucid King Antiochus III to expel an Egyptian garrison, and a grateful Antiochus granted the Jews religious autonomy. For a century and a half, Greek ...