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	Greek language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hellenistic Greek (also known as Koine Greek): The fusion of various ancient Greek dialects with Attic (the dialect of Athens) resulted in the creation of the first common Greek dialect, which gradually turned into one of the world's first international languages.
		After the Roman conquest of Greece, an unofficial diglossy of Greek and Latin was established in the city of Rome and Koine Greek became a first or second language in the Roman Empire.
		Medieval Greek: The continuation of Hellenistic Greek during medieval Greek history as the official and vernacular (if not the literary nor the ecclesiastic) language of the Byzantine Empire, and continued to be used until, and after the fall of that Empire in the 15th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greek_language (1550 words)

	Hellenistic Astrology [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Hellenistic and Late Antiquity astrologers built their craft upon Babylonian (and to a lesser extent Egyptian) astrological traditions, and developed their theoretical and technical doctrines using a combination of Stoic, Middle Platonic and Neopythagorean thought.
		One notable Stoic contribution to Hellenistic astrology which distinguishes it from the Babylonian is the incorporation of Chryssipus' principle of two forces, active and passive, manifest in the activities of the four elements.
		The importance of Antiochus for the development of Hellenistic astrology may be his break with the skepticism of the New Academy, one which allowed the Middle Platonists to espouse more theological and speculative views about the soul and the cosmos while anticipating Neoplatonic theories.
	www.iep.utm.edu /a/astr-hel.htm (18995 words)

	Drachma - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		An ancient currency unit found in many Greek city states and successor states, and in many middle-eastern kingdoms of the Hellenistic era.
		After Alexander the Great's conquests, the name Drachma was used in many of the Hellenistic kingdoms in the Middle East, including the Ptolemaic kingdom in Alexandria.
		The Arabic unit of currency known as dirham (in the Arabic language, درهم), known from pre-Islamic times and afterwards, inherited its name from the drachma; the dirham is still the name of the official currencies of Morocco and the United Arab Emirates.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/d/r/a/Drachma.html (626 words)

	TBK - Rebuttal to Licona's "Refutation of The Christ Conspiracy"
		Their division of the zodiac into twenty-eight houses of the moon is worthy of notice; this conception like all the rest of the fundamental beliefs of Hindu astrology, is to be found in the Rig-Veda [c.
		After the Exile, however, astrology spread so rapidly, above all among the educated classes of Israel, that as early as the Hellenistic era a Jewish astrological literature existed, which showed a strong Persico-Chaldean influence.
		The original Zodiac, to judge from the out-of-date astronomical data quoted in a poem by Aratus, a Hellenistic Greek, was current in the late third millennium B.C. But it is likely to have been first fixed at a time when the Sun rose in the Twins at the Spring equinox [c.
	www.truthbeknown.com /licona.htm (7191 words)

	Power of Change: May 2004 Archives
		Invitation to the Classics is just that – a renewed invitation to the corpus of great literature that has shaped Western Civilization.
		Beginning early in the Hellenistic era, tracing great works through the Roman Empire, to the Latin Church Fathers, through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and into contemporary times, the book stands as a great introduction to a treasure trove of literature.
		Organized as a chronological encyclopedia, each section centers on a major work/author (i.e.
	www.powerofchange.org /blog/2004/05 (1755 words)

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