Hellenistic period

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era of ancient Greek history historical period

The Hellenistic period was an era from the death of Alexander the Great to the rise of the Roman Empire, marked by the widespread diffusion and blending of Greek culture with those of Egypt, the Near East, and Central Asia.

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All labels observed (16)

Label	Occurrences
Hellenistic period canonical	653
Hellenistic world	66
Hellenistic culture	22
Hellenistic Greece	16
Hellenistic era	6
Hellenistic civilization	3
Hellenistic period (early phase)	3
Hellenic period	2
Early Hellenistic period	1
Hellenistic Athens	1
Hellenistic Greek culture	1
Hellenistic Greeks	1
Hellenistic science	1
Hellenistic world (cultural sphere)	1
Hellenization	1
Late Hellenistic era	1

Statements (80)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	era of ancient Greek history ⓘ historical period ⓘ
associatedWith	Alexander the Great ⓘ Diadochi ⓘ Epicureanism ⓘ Hellenistic Jews ⓘ surface form: Hellenistic Judaism Hellenistic architecture ⓘ Hellenistic art ⓘ Hellenistic philosophy ⓘ Hellenistic science ⓘ Skepticism ⓘ Stoicism ⓘ
characterizedBy	advances in science and philosophy ⓘ cultural syncretism ⓘ development of large cosmopolitan cities ⓘ expansion of trade networks ⓘ fusion of Greek and Eastern cultures ⓘ monarchic kingdoms ⓘ new forms of art and sculpture ⓘ spread of Greek language ⓘ urbanization ⓘ
chronologicalContext	between Classical Greece and Roman Empire ⓘ part of ancient history ⓘ
culturalImpact	Library of Alexandria ⓘ foundation of libraries and museums ⓘ spread of Greek education and paideia ⓘ
economicFeature	long-distance trade ⓘ monetized economies ⓘ
endDate	30 BC ⓘ 31 BC ⓘ
endEvent	Battle of Actium ⓘ Roman conquest of the Hellenistic kingdoms ⓘ
followedBy	Roman Antiquity ⓘ surface form: Roman Imperial period Roman Republic dominance in the eastern Mediterranean ⓘ
follows	Classical Greek period ⓘ age of Alexander the Great ⓘ
hasPart	Macedon ⓘ surface form: Antigonid Kingdom of Macedon Kingdom of Pergamon ⓘ surface form: Attalid Kingdom of Pergamon Cyrenaica ⓘ Greco-Bactrian Kingdom ⓘ Indo-Greek Kingdoms ⓘ Kingdom of Pontus ⓘ Ptolemaic Kingdom ⓘ Seleucid Empire ⓘ
mainRegion	Aegean Sea ⓘ surface form: Aegean Sea region Anatolia ⓘ Central Asia ⓘ Pharaonic Egypt ⓘ surface form: Egypt Greek mainland ⓘ Mesopotamia ⓘ Ancient Near East ⓘ surface form: Near East eastern Mediterranean ⓘ
majorCity	Alexandria ⓘ Antioch ⓘ Pella, Greece ⓘ surface form: Pella Pergamon ⓘ Rhodes ⓘ Ctesiphon ⓘ surface form: Seleucia on the Tigris
namedAfter	Greece ⓘ surface form: Hellas (Greece)
notableFigure	Antigonus I Monophthalmus ⓘ Archimedes ⓘ Attalus I of Pergamon ⓘ Cleopatra VII ⓘ Demetrius I of Macedon ⓘ Epicurus ⓘ Eratosthenes ⓘ Euclid ⓘ Ptolemy I Soter ⓘ Seleucus I Nicator ⓘ Zeno of Citium ⓘ
officialLanguage	Koine Greek ⓘ
politicalStructure	successor kingdoms of Alexander's empire ⓘ territorial monarchies ⓘ
precededBy	Classical Greece ⓘ
religiousDevelopment	Serapis ⓘ surface form: cult of Serapis spread of mystery cults ⓘ syncretism of Greek and Egyptian deities ⓘ
startDate	323 BC ⓘ
startEvent	death of Alexander the Great ⓘ
succeededBy	Roman Empire ⓘ

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this entity surface form: Hellenization

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Archimedes → era → Hellenistic period ⓘ