Talk:Hellenistic civilization

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Needed articles.

We should have an article on every pyramid and every nome in Ancient Egypt. I'm sure the rest of us can think of other articles we should have.

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To start with, most of the general history articles badly need attention. And I'm told that at least some of the dynasty articles need work. Any other candidates?

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Anyone? I consider this probably the most unimportant of tasks on Wikipedia, but if you believe it needs to be done . . .

Data sorting.

This is a project I'd like to take on some day, & could be applied to more of Wikipedia than just Ancient Egypt. Take one of the standard authorities of history or culture -- Herotodus, the Elder Pliny, the writings of Breasted or Kenneth Kitchen, & see if you can't smoothly merge quotations or information into relevant articles. Probably a good exercise for someone who owns one of those impressive texts, yet can't get access to a research library.

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Untitled

Should this page be titled Hellenistic Civilization instead? It refers mainly to civilizations outside of Greece that were partly Greek-speking.

Alex Clark

It could be called Hellenistic Civilisation, yes. I am only using it as a temporary redirect for Hisory of Hellenistic Greece until a proper article is written. Adam 02:20, 31 Mar 2OO4 (UTC)

Sorry to change the subject, but is this the same Alex Clark, who had Mr. Burr as a teacher?--Moosh88 23:25, 26 August 2OO5 (UTC)

Me to ,I think so as well

Hellenism vs. Hellenistic Civilisation

I notice this page redirects from 'Hellenism', yet surely Hellenism as a movement eg. in Renaissance or later art, philosophy etc. as a style and movement might deserve its own page as opposed to the civilisation it idealised or imitated ...

Kingdoms

Shouldnt the Hellenistic Kingdoms be included here as well? Bythinnia, Galatil etc. ?

Look better: they are mentioned. Aldux 11:19, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

D@mn!

This is REALLY REALLY GOOD ARTICLE! Hats off gentlemen! It seems there are some very fine lovers of the Greeks and Greek ways in the world. God Bless you all. LoveMonkey 16:16, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Edit

Just to clarify, I made the edit to differentiate between Caesar Augustus (which isn't his correct title) and Octavian. Most historians accept that Octavian attained the title Augustus in 27 B.C. He did, however, attain the praenomen of Imperator shortly before his war with Marcus Antonius (more specifically Cleopatra).

Nudas veritas 08:32, 19 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The quote about the future expansion of christianity throughout the hellenistic-roman world (that eventually gave Christianity the opportunity to flourish) is inappropriate if put in the article's beginning and reflects the christian point of view of the meaning of history... I think can be deleted, the Hellenistic World was important for many reasons and the easier propagation of christianity was a secondary consequence (more attributable to the political unification of the roman empire, and then consequentially also to the cultural hellenistic influence in the east) and a quotation about christianity in the article's incipit is Not-NPOV. --Antioco79 13:22, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hellenistic Period

Looking at the articles Hellenistic Civilisation and Hellenistic Period, they both cover somewhat similar ground... I feel that some of what I've tried to put in Hellenistic Period (mainly the cultural aspects, which need to be extended) would fit better into Hellenistic Civilisation, and that the history side would fit better into Hellenistic Period. Any thoughts on the matter? Tbarker 08:11, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, Hellenistic civilisation should be merged in the period. Miskin 17:00, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hellenistic period needs a good rewrite anyway. Is anybody against the merge? Miskin

It seems to me that the best course of action would be to have Hellenistic Period evolve into a narrative history of the period (that is, kings, battles, politics) and have Hellenistic civilization talk about culture, philosophy, and social aspects. semper fictilis 02:52, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

added expert tag

I added the expert tag -- please discuss at Talk:Hellenism#reorganization and foreign-language articles. Joriki (talk) 16:01, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

map key translation

The efforts to translate the map key on this page of any English/German bilingual folks out there would be greatly appreciated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.94.27.229 (talk) 19:33, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hellenistic civilization does not end in 30 BC

This article should not focus on the period and the states. See major Roman era Hellenistic writers and intellectuals: Josephus,Philo, Lucian, Marcus Aurelius, Plotinus, Eusebius of Caesarea, Iamblichus, Hypatia of Alexandria,Arrian,Athenaeus,Plutarchus, Ptolemy and so on. Think of two names of the Koine Greek, which are New Testament and Patristic. See also Category:Hellenistic philosophy and religion a mainly Roman era category. Catalographer (talk) 17:51, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

- Some photos of the geographer Ptolemy or the novelist Lucian, along with images of Hellenistic art (Note the Category:Hellenistic-style Roman sculptures) would be much better than the current ones, which belong to the Hellenistic period.Catalographer (talk) 17:59, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

and it does not even start in 323 BC

See Anacharsis and Bosporan Kingdom.Catalographer (talk) 05:48, 26 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment comment

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Hellenistic civilization/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

An article needing expansion and referencing.--Yannismarou 19:38, 8 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 19:38, 8 October 2006 (UTC). Substituted at 17:36, 29 April 2016 (UTC)