Hellene : traced their descent to Hellen, grandson of Prometheus. The term “Hellenism” stands for Greek idiom or construction, nationality & culture, & also applied to the ideals of later thinkers who draw their inspiration from ancient Greece.
... winter of darkness. Troy that displaced with her force and her arms the luminous ancients, Sinks in her turn by the ruder strength of the half-savage Achaians. They to the Hellene shall yield and the Hellene fall by the Roman. Rome too shall not endure, but by strengths ill shaped shall be broken, Page 35 Nations formed in the ice and mist, confused and crude-hearted. ... scene in which the heroine is advancing like the racing and whistling north-wind and when Zethus, the Hellene, cries out to her: "Curb, but curb thy advance, 0 Amazon Penthesilea!", she shots back: Page 51 "Who art thou biddest to pose the horse-hooves of Penthesilea, Hellene, thou in thy strength who standest forth from thy shielders? Turn yet, save thy life; for I deem that... Crying for battle within you deluded by Hera and Pallas, Swiftly fierce death's surges shall close over Troy and her ramparts Built by the gods shall be stubble and earth to the tread of the Hellene. ... Page 43 Apollo (Temple of Zeus, Olympia, c. 470 BC ) Page 44 Rest shall I then when the borders of Greece are fringed with the Ganges; Thus shall the past pay ...
... to his winter of darkness. Troy that displaced with her force and her arms the luminous ancients, Sinks in her turn by the ruder strength of the half-savage Achaians. They to the Hellene shall yield and the Hellene fall by the Roman. Rome too shall not endure, but by strengths ill-shaped shall be broken, Nations formed in the ice and mist, confused and crude-hearted. So shall the darker and ruder... nearer, Apollo Sent a thought for his bale to the heart of Zethus the Hellene. He to Achilles' car drew close and cried to the hero: "Didst thou not promise a boon to me, son of Peleus and Thetis, Then when I guarded thy life-breath in Memnon's battle from Hades? Therefore I claim the proudest of boons, one worthy a Hellene. Here in the front I will fight against dangerous Penthesilea. Thou on... its side and snow for its breath in the pitiless winter: "Who art thou biddest to pause the horsehooves of Penthesilea? Hellene, thou in thy strength who standest forth from thy shielders, Turn yet, save thy life; for I deem that thou art not Achilles." "Zethus the Hellene I am and Cycnus and Pindus, my brothers, Stand at my either side, and thou passest no farther, Bellona. Lioness, turn thou ...
... Troy that displaced with her force and her arms the luminous ancients Sinks in her turn by the rudder strength of the half-savage Achaians. Page 63 They to the Hellene shall yield and the Hellene falls by the Romans. And, with the following, offers us a great teaching, Ever since knowledge failed and the ancient ecstasy slackened, Light has been helper to death... addressing her "father” Zeus, and foreseeing the times to come declares, Only my form he pursues that I wear for a mortal enchantment, He to whom now you givest the world, the Ionian, the Hellene, But for my mind is unfit which Babylon worshipped and Sidon Palely received from the past in images faint of the gladness Once that was known by the children of men the thrill of their members ...
... winter of darkness. Troy that displaced with her force and her arms the luminous ancients, Sinks in her turn by the ruder strength of the half-savage Achaians. They to the Hellene-shall yield and the Hellene fall by the Roman. Page 80 Rome too shall not endure, but by strengths ill-shaped shall be broken, Nations formed in the ice and mist, confused and crude-hearted. ... sweetness. Mould Hephaestus' craft in the gaze of the gold Aphrodke,- Only my form he pursues that I wear for a mortal enchantment, He to whom now thou givest the world, the Ionian, the Hellene, But for my might is unfit which Babylon worshipped and Sidon Page 84 Palely received from the past in images faint of the gladness Once that was known by the children of men when ...
... armoured assembly Held on the wind-swept marge of the thunder and laughter of ocean. One in his singleness greater than kings and multitudes sends me. I am a voice out of Phthia, I am the will of the Hellene. Peace in my right I bring to you, death in my left hand. Trojan, Proudly receive them, honour the gifts of the mighty Achilles. Death accept, if Ate deceives you and Doom is your lover, Peace... out with a threat for its prelude. Yet will we hear thee. Arise who are fleetest of foot in the gateway,— Thou, Thrasymachus, haste. Let the domes of the mansion of Ilus Wake to the bruit of the Hellene challenge. Summon Aeneas." Even as the word sank back into stillness, doffing his mantle Started to run at the bidding a swift-footed youth of the Trojans First in the race and the battle, Thrasymachus ...
... deliberately remained in the extreme of the ancient symbolic conception of the plastic Arts and therefore most entirely offended the rational and imitative eye which is Europe's inheritance from the Hellene. It is a curious sign of the gulf between the two conceptions that an European writer will almost always fix for praise precisely on those Indian sculptures which are farthest away from the Indian ...
... I have not come from the monarch of men or the armoured assembly Held on the wind-swept marge of the thunder and laughter of ocean. I am a voice out of Phthia, I am the will of the Hellene. Peace in my right I bring to you, death in my left hand. Trojan, Proudly receive them, honour the gifts of the mighty Achilles. Death accept if Ate deceives you and Doom is your ...
... his mind. Philip was anxious that Alexander should study philosophy, "so that," he said, "you may not do a great many things of the son that I am sorry to have done." To some extent Aristotle made a Hellene of him; through all his life Alexander admired Greek literature, and envied Greek civilization. To two Greeks sitting with him at the wild banquet at which he slew Cleitus he said, "Do you not feel ...
... the Ocean. Wroth he cried to his coursers and fiercely they heard and they hastened; Swift like a wind o'er the grasses galloped the car of Achilles. 93 The last we hear is the Hellene shout and the name of Achilles, but the end of the affair is left to be inferred by the reader. It is probable enough that Sri Aurobindo intended to conclude the poem following the main lines ...
... answers to 'Iάων. The question yet remains when did the Hindus become acquainted with the existence of the Greeks. Now here the first consideration is why did they call the Greeks Ionians, and not Hellenes or Macedonians? That the Persians should know the Greeks by that name is natural enough, for it was with the Ionians that they first came in contact; but it was not Ionians who invaded India under ...
... Greek and were guided, to some degree, by Greek ideas and customs. This era in which the Middle East was permeated by Greek influence is known as the Hellenistic period (The Greeks called themselves Hellenes; Hellenistic means "Greek-like"). It ended politically in 30 B.C., when Rome annexed Egypt, the last nominally independent Hellenistic state. But the cultural unity of the Middle East lasted far longer; ...
... the Jews of the diaspora adopted as a rule the language as well as the dress of the province where they lived, and that from the linguistic and cultural standpoints they were ‘assimilated’, even Hellenizing or Latinizing their names. From all of this one may conclude that they did not seem to suffer from a special animosity, and that nothing except their cult made them conspicuous in the mosaic of peoples ...
... said, is the bridge thrown across the gulf existing between the spiritual, the occult, the intuitive and the sensuous, the physical, the material. Since the arrival of Page 222 the Hellenes a highway has been built up, a metalled macada-mised road connecting these two levels of human experience and there is possible now a free and open communication from the one to the other. We need ...
... to your industry the silver mines and allowed your ships to plough the seas. He put at your feet Thessalia, Thebes, Athens and the Peloponnese. He claimed and obtained supreme hegemony 1 over all Hellenes to march against the Persians. All that Philip did. Great things indeed! Nothing, when compared to what has been accomplished since then. My father left me only a little silver and gold. I found only ...
... east to west across the sky. He was replaced by Apollo in late Greek and Roman mythology. Page 117 Hellenes: The name, originally, of a tribe which settled in Phthia in the southeast of Thessaly; it later developed into the national name of the Greeks. The Hellenes traced their descent to Hellen, grandson of Prometheus. In Ilion, the word usually describes Achilles and his men ...
... Greek and were guided, to some degree, by Greek ideas and customs. This era in which the Middle East was permeated by Greek influence is known as the Hellenistic period (The Greeks called themselves Hellenes; Hellenistic means "Greek-like"). It ended politically in 30 BC, when Rome annexed Egypt, the last nominally independent Hellenistic state. But the cultural unity of the Middle East lasted far longer; ...
... it Psilukis. Here he landed and sacrificed to the gods, and made what observations he could on the nature of the sea and of the coast, as far as it was accessible. Then he ___________ 1 The Hellenized form of Chandragupta, whose accession took place about 326 BC. He later wiped out the Macedonian garrisons in India. 2 Prostrate: exhausted physically or emotionally 3 Oar: long pole of wood ...
... is it not possible that the adaptations by the Greek scribe according to the spirit of his culture are from the Aramaic adaptations? If we can think of him as Hellenizing Indian concepts and phrases, we can equally think of him as Hellenizing those proper to the Avestan-Aramaic mind and tongue. Dupont-Sommer 4 writes: "'Piety', ... under the pen of the Greek scribe is a transposition of the ...
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