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  • And the overwhelmingly powerful instinct will be to blame modernity for the crisis, whether this is just or not. the misanthropy and anti-hellenism of some ecologists is just a symptom here.

    Shameless Self-promotion Sunday #45 2009

  • So, while in class we may be treating the "Urn" primarily in terms of romantic hellenism and the political tensions arising from the Elgin marbles controversy (in fact the tack I've taken most recently, in part because the marbles have been in the news), the student may be writing that week a brief explication of the poem, with special attention to the function of the transitions.

    Three or Four Ways of Looking at an Urn 2003

  • Thomas Taylor, frequently called “the Platonist,” revived the Neo-Platonic tradition in England in an original manner, adding to it an element of the phil - hellenism of the late eighteenth century.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ERNST MORITZ MANASSE 1968

  • George assumed that the true spirit of Platonic paideia was akin to his own endeavor to bring about a renais - sance of hellenism by the training of an elite imbued with the ideal of kalokagathia.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ERNST MORITZ MANASSE 1968

  • It is impossible to assign a date to this disappearance of hellenism among them.

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

  • Byzantine rule, further exploited by Persian and Mohammedan sovereigns, is what explains the facts of Nestorian and Monophysite history; the nationalism of Byzantine hellenism in its antipathy to the Latins, as exploited by the Eastern emperors and their prelates, is what explains the separation of the Orthodox Churches from the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • The taste for this kind of thing sprang from humanism, and throve with hellenism, till a counter-reaction came suddenly in the sixteenth century.

    Donatello, by Lord Balcarres David Lindsay Crawford 1905

  • Urbanity, hellenism, love of all that was exquisite, a predilection for out-of-the-way studies, an æsthetic curiosity, a passion for archæology, and an epicurean taste in gallantry were hereditary qualities of the house of

    The Child of Pleasure Gabriele D'Annunzio 1900

  • A poet of great mastery and a refined critic, his thought, is steeped in hellenism and in the most abstruse mystic lore.

    The Shield Avrahm Yarmolinsky 1895

  • She, however, had no aspirations to share the throne of the Lagidae, and the hellenism of Tiberius and of his younger brother Caius, though deep and far-reaching, was of a kind less violent than would have been gained by transportation to Alexandria.

    A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

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