Hellenisms

Forms of Speech, which the Criticks call Hellenisms, as Horace in his

The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

The blog is adapted from a published article by the author in her volume Hellenisms: Culture, Identity and Ethnicity from Antiquity to Modernity Ashgate 2008: 321-53.

Katerina Zacharia: Remembering Michael Cacoyannis Katerina Zacharia 2011

His work contains no Semitisms, and the Hellenisms which his critics have pointed out in it are neither frequent nor without warrant in the usage of his day.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

The early Latin versions of the Bible had the characteristics common to all texts of this group; Hellenisms abounded in them and even Semitisms filtered in through the Greek.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

Tertullian's vocabulary, we find in his writings not more than sixty new words, a few Hellenisms -- apostata, gazophylacium -- a few popular words or phrases - magnalia, mammona -- or a few words formed by added inflections -- apostatare, clarificatio.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

Hellenisms, a very questionable feature in the literary works of preceding centuries, were frequent in these translations.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

Hellenisms and with Hebraisms; [Footnote: The diction of Milton is a case absolutely unique in literature: of many writers it has been said, but of him only with truth, that he created a peculiar language.

Memorials and Other Papers — Complete Thomas De Quincey 1822

Hellenisms and with Hebraisms; [Footnote: The diction of Milton is a case absolutely unique in literature: of many writers it has been said, but of him only with truth, that he created a peculiar language.

Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822