Sentence examples for essentially Hellenistic from inspiring English sources

Vitruvius' outlook is essentially Hellenistic.

Genethlialogy in Iran was essentially an imitation of the Hellenistic (though without any philosophy), onto which were grafted some Indian features, such as the navamshas and a Shaivite interpretation of illustrations of the Greco-Egyptian deities of the decans.

The core of Hellenistic culture was essentially Athenian.

But the new astrology in the Latin-reading world remained essentially an offshoot of Islamic astrology, gaining an adequate representation of its Hellenistic originals only in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Only in Hellenistic Greece, in Rome, and in China, where there were essentially nontheocratic societies, does there seem to have been any publishing in the modern sense i.e., a copying industry supplying a lay readership.

Greek sculptures adorned Hellenistic landscape gardening on the Palatine or in the villas, and much of ancient Roman cuisine was essentially Greek.

(See also Hellenistic Age).

During the Hellenistic Age (c.

Hellenistic artists are more interested in expression.

Regiomontanus thoroughly mastered Hellenistic and medieval mathematics.

Such conceptions characterized the ancient Hellenistic religions.